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

The largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants ...

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 ...

Western Europe experienced the largest surge in reported diphtheria infections in 70 years. Clinical and genomic data from ...

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 ...

“The recent diphtheria outbreak underscores the importance of timely vaccinations. City Health appeals to parents to make sure their child’s vaccinations are on their ‘to-do’ list before ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty-four inmates at Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town have been placed in isolation to curb the spread of diphtheria after seven cases were confirmed. The correctional services department said it ...

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.