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South Africa: 2022 Typhoid

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Source: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...d-raises-red-alert-about-typhoid-fever-in-sa/


NICD raises red alert about typhoid fever in SA
Sipokazi Fokazi Journalist
17 February 2022 - 07:18

In the Western Cape the outbreaks are currently in the Cape Town Metro health district, the Cape Winelands and the Garden Route. In the North West, the outbreak is in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district.
In the Western Cape the outbreaks are currently in the Cape Town Metro health district, the Cape Winelands and the Garden Route. In the North West, the outbreak is in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district.
Image: 123RF/Michael Heim

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says investigations of typhoid outbreaks are ongoing in at least two provinces — the Western Cape and North West — after a spike of cases in these two regions this year.

Head of the centre for enteric diseases Juno Thomas said the institute is currently working with health authorities to bring under control three separate outbreaks in the Western Cape and another one in the North West...
 
Source: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...rth-west-ce3a69fa-6189-40cf-9d80-d5aaa5dbc6d3

Typhoid fever update: Cases reported in Western Cape, Gauteng and North West
By Yasmine Jacobs Time of article published 3h ago

Cape Town - Cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in Gauteng, the Western Cape and the North West.

At least seven cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in Gauteng between December 2021 and February, Tshwane health MMC Rina Marx told the Pretoria Rekord...
 
Source: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/new...ast-year-2dc617a1-e265-4d47-b4e3-9ec828556ba2

Health MEC Mbombo says Western Cape recorded three typhoid deaths in the past year
Written by Mwangi Githahu
Multimedia Journalist, Cape Argus

Cape Town - Health and Wellness MEC Nomafrench Mbombo has said that there were three deaths and 162 cases of typhoid fever in the the Western Cape over the past year.

Mbombo was replying to a question from provincial ANC health spokesperson Rachel Windvogel, who had asked for a breakdown of reported cases and deaths per municipality from last year to date.

Windvogel had also asked about the prevalence of the disease in the Province, and its causes...
 
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