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15/05/2024

Doctors do not test every patient with respiratory illness for the flu because the treatment is similar for many viral respiratory diseases. However, sometimes testing helps doctors decide on the best treatment. If testing is necessary, the doctor may collect samples from the nose or throat using swabs or ask for a sample of mucus from coughing.

Join CoughWatchSA to help us monitor trends in respiratory illness this flu season by clicking here: https://coughwatchsa.org.za/

11/07/2022

Hospitalisations continue to rise in Europe

06/07/2022

Countries in the Northern Hemisphere are not only the ones experiencing a surge in cases.

Australia: 43 956 new COVID-19 cases today

New Zealand: 10 290 new COVID-19 cases.

Below shows the number of COVID-19 patients who are currently hospitalised. This has been rising ever since BA.5 became dominant.

04/07/2022

COVID-19 hospitalisations are rising in Europe. Will be tracking how these increases translate to COVID-19 deaths in the next few weeks.

(Spain and Italy show hospital occupancy)

03/07/2022

New South Wales has recorded its first case of diphtheria of the throat in a century.

03/07/2022

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗽𝗵𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 🇦🇺

NSW (Australia) reported a case of Diphtheria of the throat in an unvaccinated 2 year-old child, who is currently admitted in the ICU.

This is their first confirmed case of Diphtheria of the throat in a century. Today, another case was reported in an unvaccinated 6 year-old, who is a close contact of the first case 😔

Diphtheria is known as '𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹' and is the reason why intubation exists today as a medical procedure. Around 5% –10% of those who are infected will die, hence we vaccinate all children against it.

In South Africa, children are required to receive all six doses (including boosters) of vaccines to be fully protected against Diphtheria. Our last Diphtheria outbreak occured in 2018.

30/06/2022

Top 10 countries with 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘅 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 as of 29th June 2022. Over 5000 cases globally 🚩

29/06/2022

This snippet from the conclusion of the paper published in 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 by 𝗥𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗹., sticks out like sore thumb now. Read it properly.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1005769107

27/06/2022

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘅 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸?

Most infamously, WHO also delayed declaring COVID-19 a PHEIC on the 23rd January 2020, and we all know what followed.

As a result, countries did not ramp up testing and surveillance efforts, allowing the virus to spread to all parts of the world.

Many public health experts have feared that the lack of urgency in addressing the alarming rise of Monkeypox cases is heading to down the same road we took early on with COVID-19.

𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲: When an outbreak is declared a 𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗖, it is different from declaring it 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰.

27/06/2022

The advisory panel at WHO decided to not yet declare Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a decision which saw much criticism this weekend.

Currently, Polio and COVID-19 are the only two diseases that PHEIC status, with Polio being declared a PHEIC from 2014.

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