South Africa is building up vaccine stocks and expanding inoculations to fight a worsening foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, ...

So far this year the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has issued reports on three different outbreaks of vaccine ... polio importation into South Africa, as both polio ...

A diphtheria outbreak has been declared at the Pollsmoor ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 600 news and information items daily from ...

In recent months, there have been outbreaks in South Africa of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles, mumps and diphtheria. This year, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases ...

The Department of Correctional Services is ramping up efforts to keep prisoners safe at the Pollsmoor prison after an inmate died of diphtheria ... is one of South Africa’s leading news and ...

There is an increased spread of measles in South Africa now. Measles is a highly infectious disease that spreads through droplets. It is the second most frequently reported disease outbreak in ...

Paris (AFP) – The largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants and the homeless since 2022, new research said Wednesday.

In Nigeria’s northern state of Kano, doctors and health workers are grappling with one of the worst diphtheria outbreaks in recent ... for West and Central Africa at MSF told CNN.