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World record wash-off: India versus South Africa
The World Health Organization launched their second annual Global Handwashing Day on October 15, 2009. The purpose of the two events was to break current world record holder, Bhiddwa School Niketon of...
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Food destined for dump sickens 100 in S.Africa squatter camp
There’s a reason expired and recalled food is supposed to be dumped in a secure manner. Associated Press reports cookies, candies, jams and juice destined for a dump instead went to Themba Mgodla as...
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42 sickened; diarrhea outbreak caused by Salmonella in South Africa
Salmonella was the likely cause of a diarrhea outbreak in Limpopo, South Africa, earlier this week where 42 people were hospitalised, a Sapa correspondent reported on Tuesday. The outbreak was reported...
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Silence of the goats; traditional slaughter in South Africa
The South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries estimated in 2012 that there were 2.033 million goats in the country. Of these animals, less than 0.5% are slaughtered at registered...
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‘Children come to our schools to get support, not to leave in stretchers’...
Cake provided by a community member may have resulted in the deaths of three children in Winterveldt, north of Pretoria. It was earlier reported that three children died after eating food provided...
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150 South African students hospitalized after glass found in food
Hungry Limpopo school children are the unsuspecting victims of an alleged tender war between food suppliers, according to reports. On Monday more than 150 pupils from Kwena Tshwena Primary School in...
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Over 200 South African students examined for food poisoning
Some pupils were vomiting and others complained of abdominal pains, said spokesman Macks Lesufi in an e-mail. He said at least 100 pupils were examined, treated, and released at Jane Furse hospital on...
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Always cameras: South Africa KFC branch shuts after images go viral
Fast food franchise KFC has announced its store in Braamfontein has been closed until further notice after images of staff “washing chickens” on a dirty floor surfaced on social media this week. A...
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South Africa doesn’t have capacity to forecast, track a foodborne disease
A University of Pretoria (UP) food safety expert warns South Africa does not have adequate capacity to forecast and track a foodborne disease. Professor Lise Korsten has told a parliamentary workshop...
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Over 1000 sickened with links to South African dairy
Malibongwe Dayimani of Dispatch Live reports a King William’s Town dairy that supplied a number of schools in the area with fermented milk, or amasi, was last week ordered to close. Innesfree...
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World record wash-off: India versus South Africa
The World Health Organization launched their second annual Global Handwashing Day on October 15, 2009. The purpose of the two events was to break current world record holder, Bhiddwa School Niketon of...
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Food destined for dump sickens 100 in S.Africa squatter camp
There’s a reason expired and recalled food is supposed to be dumped in a secure manner. Associated Press reports cookies, candies, jams and juice destined for a dump instead went to Themba Mgodla as...
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36 dead, 557 sick in Listeria outbreak in South Africa
At a media briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday, South African Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced that since January 1, 2017 up until November 29, 557 laboratory confirmed cases have been...
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647 sick, 60 dead from Listeria in South Africa
As of 19 December 2017, a total of 647 laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases have been reported to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) since 01 January 2017. Diagnosis was based...
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61 dead from listeriosis in South Africa as fatalities double in a month
Wendy Knowler of Business Day reports the death toll from the listeriosis outbreak plaguing SA has nearly doubled in the past month, to 61 from 36, as SA grapples with an outbreak that experts say is...
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107 dead, 852 sick from Listeria in South Africa: Suspects unknown
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), in Johannesburg, South Africa, reported 107 case patients have died from Listeria monocytogenes. The agency, which is a division of the National...
View ArticleListeria hysteria in South Africa
My wife and I were discussing this morning the horror that is occurring in South Africa regarding the Listeria outbreak. My wife is a professional dancer for an African modern dance group-NAfro in...
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180 dead, 948 sick: Polony fingered for Listeria in S. Africa
South Africans were told on Sunday not to consume ready-to-eat processed meat as the government identified the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people as a cold meat product made by...
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180 dead, almost 1,000 sickened: Meat firm says no direct proof but...
South Africa is, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), currently in the middle of the biggest listeria outbreak ever seen. It took South Africa more than a year to identify the cause of...
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Listeria in South Africa: Who knew what when?
I’ve never met a lawyer who couldn’t appropriate an idea as her own, and I’ve never met a lawyer who would sit out a class-action (as long as the country’s legal terms, like the dude, abide, and how...
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