Tag: Rabies

ENTERTAINMENT

Dogs and Cape seals experience rising threat in rabies

The Department of Agriculture has issued a crucial warning to South Africans and travellers about high-risk rabies areas across the country, highlighting the potentially deadly viral disease that affects not only dogs but also Cape fur seals and various other mammals. With human fatalities already reported from rabies infections transmitted by dogs in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, […]

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

What you need to know about rabies

Human rabies may be reported as rare with an average of 19 laboratory confirmed cases, however the virus is nearly 100% fatal once symptoms appear. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reports that rabies is a zoonic, vaccine-preventable viral disease that causes damage to the brain and spinal cord in infected animals and human […]

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