by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Travel advice
The following article comes from the World Health Organisation (WHO) website This document provides updated recommendations for international traffic in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak, in light of the rapidly evolving situation. It supersedes the advice published...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | News/Information
*The following information was taken from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) website. The Minister of Health, on 05 March 2020, made an official announcement of a local confirmed COVID-19 case in South Africa, of a 38-year old man from...
by admin | Feb 17, 2020 | Angola
Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed News release 17 MAY 2013 | GENEVA – The yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to WHO. An article published in WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological...
by admin | Feb 17, 2020 | Angola
Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The “yellow” in the name refers to the jaundice that affects some patients.Symptoms of yellow fever include fever, headache, jaundice, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and...
by admin | Feb 17, 2020 | Angola
The majority of the probable cases in Angola have been ruled out as yellow fever cases by the Institut Pasteur of Dakar. They will remain classified as probable cases until a full battery of tests has been run to determine other possible causes of illness. Once the...
