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Hantavirus outbreak prompts urgent evacuation from cruise ship MV Hondius
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (669+ words) An ambulance boat carries crew members wearing hazmat suits as they approach the pilot door on the starboard side of the cruise ship MV Hondius. Amid a hantavirus outbreak, two critically ill crew members from a cruise ship will be…...
Day care centres face TB, safety concerns
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (520+ words) Etafeni nurses and social workers call for the safety of community healthcare workers. Health workers at Etafeni Day Care Centre say they are battling tuberculosis (TB) and growing safety concerns as they work in communities across Nyanga. The non-profit is…...
Your health isn't luck: take control today to avoid diabetes and hypertension
17+ hour, 36+ min ago (14+ words) Cape Argus...
How our words shape the stigma surrounding diabetes
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (437+ words) Learn why language matters and how small shifts can lead to greater empathy in people living with diabetes. Image: Nokuthula Mbatha / Independent Newspapers The hardest part of living with diabetes for many people is not always the diagnosis, but the…...
What is Hantavirus? Understanding its symptoms and transmission in light of recent outbreak
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (496+ words) Health Department urges calm after rare Hantavirus case confirmed in South Africa. Years after Covid-19 brought the world to its knees, another rare but potentially deadly virus called Hantavirus is making global headlines after a suspected outbreak aboard a cruise…...
Passengers on Jo'burg flight traced for hantavirus
23+ hour, 46+ min ago (303+ words) A woman carrying the hantavirus deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg on April 25. Contact tracing has been initiated for passengers onboard a flight to Johannesburg on April 25, after a woman onboard died from the hantavirus. The hantavirus outbreak aboard the…...
Heroic rescue: 78-year-old woman revived after cardiac arrest at hotel pool
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (297+ words) The NSRI assisted a woman who fell into a hotel swimming pool after suffering a cardiac arrest. A 78-year-old woman is recovering in hospital today after being brought back to life by a team of heroic bystanders and rescue medics…...
Influencer Jake Rosmarin's tearful plea from hantavirus-hit cruise
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (404+ words) Travel influencer Jake Rosmarin shared his emotional experience aboard the MV Hondius. Amid a deadly hantavirus outbreak, travel influencer Jake Rosmarin opened up about his harrowing experience aboard the MV Hondius, where uncertainty looms over the passengers. What was meant…...
Cruise ship Hantavirus outbreak leaves British tourist in ICU
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (403+ words) The South African Department of Health has confirmed that a British man is being treated in a Johannesburg hospital after contracting hantavirus aboard a ship, which killed three other passengers. A British national is in a Johannesburg hospital after contracting…...
Pulmonary Hypertension: A global health crisis we must address
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (635+ words) Cape Argus Pulmonary Hypertension: A global health crisis we must address Gerald Maarman is an associate professor in the division of medical physiology in the department of biomedical sciences at Stellenbosch University. World Pulmonary Hypertension Day is marked each year…...