Last year, Tanzania identified an outbreak of leptospirosis or “rat fever” which killed three people in the southeastern region of Lindi.

The City of Cape town has declared a measles outbreak and encourage parents to get their children vaccinated.

KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is getting ready in case there is a measles outbreak.

Farms in North West and the Free State have been placed under quarantine following an outbreak of African Swine Fever at a farm in Gauteng.

City of Tshwane assures residents there is no measles outbreak. But warns the situation could change.

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The Foreign Press Association Africa has slammed western media for using images of black people on Monkeypox stories about the outbreak.

An outbreak of rabies has been reported in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, which has led to a vaccination drive.

Government officials are asking Cape Town residents to express caution, after cases of the infectious rabies disease were detected this week.

Calling the outbreak a national emergency could pave the way for more federal government involvement in stemming the crisis.

The South African Poultry Association (Sapa) announced the second outbreak of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, in Gauteng.

“We are in a race between the virus that is going to continue to mutate in order to spread more easily and the humanity that has to try and stop its spreading,” said WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove.

Simply put, the difference between these three scenarios of disease spread is a matter of scale.