The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) is a dynamic organisation, creating news in the field of diagnostic pathology and research every day. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), an institute of the NHLS, also alerts healthcare authorities and workers globally about infectious disease outbreaks requiring urgent and immediate attention.
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The Outbreak Response Unit of the NICD provides support to all provinces for outbreaks of epidemic infectious diseases.
For more information contact the unit on +27 (11) 386 0545.
2011 Influenza Season Has Started
Media Advisory The annual influenza season has started with cases being reported since the first week in May and a sharp rise in the past week. Although this is unusually early for influenza it does [...]
World Malaria Day: 25 April 2011
Achieving Progress and Impact This year's World Malaria Day theme "Achieving Progress and Impact" highlights recent successes in efforts to and causes global partners to take stock of what needs to be done to control, [...]
Malaria Alert: Returning Travelers From Malaria Transmission Area
It is currently the malaria season in Southern Africa and many travelers will have been exposed during their recent holidays. Each year, otherwise healthy travellers die from malaria because of a missed diagnosis, delays in [...]