The fungus Cryptococcus is the most common cause of meningitis, and the second leading cause of death in adults living
Over the last two weeks of May 2022, four laboratory-confirmed cases of measles from persons resident in Gauteng have been
1. What is monkeypox? Monkeypox is caused by infection with monkeypox virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus in the
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, confirms that there are currently
Since the report of an imported case of Lassa fever in South Africa on 12 May 2022 (https://www.nicd.ac.za/imported-case-of-lassa-fever-identified/), further investigations
Michelle J. Groome, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Juliet Pulliam, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (SACEMA) ,
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