The bottom line is that if FMD can occur at this operation, no South African cattle farm or feedlot is safe. But there is no need to rush out to stock up your freezer.

Karan Beef, South Africa’s largest beef producer, has confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) at its Heidelberg ...

The diphtheria outbreak ... swift response to the outbreak and urged their members to comply with the measures. Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading ...

“Africa currently produces less than 1% of the vaccines it uses,” noted Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of Africa CDC. Image Credit: ChatGPT Despite overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has revealed that more than 500,000 children under the age of five die each year in Africa from preventable diseases, despite the ...

Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever are rising globally, and diseases like diphtheria ... Meningitis cases in Africa also rose sharply in ...

The Paediatric Association of Nigeria has decried the outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases such as diphtheria and cerebrospinal ... and some states in the south. CSM occurs when there is ...

In 2025, 17 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa are grappling ... the majority of which are outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, measles and diphtheria.

Northern Mali town still hit by drones after fierce July battle Doctors report outbreaks of diphtheria and malaria ... across the Sahel region of West Africa, which forced Mali to declare a ...

The outbreaks consist of the following: hepatitis A in Australia (2018), Ebola in the USA (2018), measles in Japan (2018), diphtheria in Bangladesh (2017), Zika in Brazil (2015), hepatitis A in Italy ...

Since the start of 2024, different parts of Africa have recorded cases of cholera, measles, dengue fever, Lassa fever, meningitis, chikungunya, monkeypox, diphtheria and the West Nile virus. Africa ...

This fact may lead to gaps in the immunity of the adults and diphtheria outbreaks may occur ... including Africa, India (Singh et al. 1999), Bangladesh, Vietnam (Kneen et al. 1998), the tropics and ...