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The Kampong Trach district administration in Kampot province has decided to temporarily ban the production, import and export, and distribution of rice wine, while two winery owners were arrested on suspicion of making and selling wine containing high levels of a toxic chemical that have killed nine villagers.
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Anxious and unsettled, a Johannesburg teenager is fraught with worry as a surgery to remove a mass between his ear and brain has been postponed indefinitely.
The 19-year-old was admitted to Helen Joseph Hospital on Sunday. His surgical procedure had been scheduled for Monday May 24. However, hours after being taken to theatre, the videography student was sent home, in the dark about when he’d have the critical surgery.
Speaking to City Press, his mother Fatima Myburgh says: “They [hospital staff] said the surgeries have been cancelled due to the theatre backlog as a result of the water outages.”
19 May 2021 - Wits Communications
A new study has found a high burden of influenza in a rural and an urban setting in SA, where asymptomatic people – particularly children – transmit this virus.
Influenza (flu) causes approximately 300 000-600 000 respiratory deaths globally annually, with the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa.
Data on influenza community burden and transmission are important to plan interventions especially in resource-limited settings.
However, data are limited, particularly on the symptomatic proportion by age and particularly from low-income and middle-income countries.
The study, by Wits scientists, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), and colleagues at North West University and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was published in
Hell broke loose back in 2018 when Botswana Television (Btv) Broadcasting Officer, Gaolaolwe Ralotsia, son to former cabinet Minister, Patrick Ralotsia, started to make sound statements and reported the rampant corruption happening at the National Broadcaster spearheaded by a cabal of procurement officers.