Until now, the interaction of temperature and air pollution and its contribution to these diseases hasn’t been studied conclusively in South Africa - or anywhere on the African continent.
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It’s nearly impossible to avoid close contact when protesting, and easy to forget the risks. An infectious disease expert answers key questions about how to avoid spreading the coronavirus to family.
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For the people who do show symptoms of COVID-19, what are they and why do they differ?
South Africa’s lockdown rules started with high legitimacy. But it has been eroded and has now dissolved.
Removing social medicine from the education of medical students would be to their detriment - as well as their future patients.
The judgment creates a new layer of uncertainty in an already highly fluid situation and heaps further unwelcome pressure onto government.
A continuous lock down is detrimental to Nigeria’s large population of people living below poverty lines, but lifting the restrictions without a proper plan is equally dangerous. Here’s what to do.
The hard truth is that the more the isolation is contained, the greater the economic problems will be.
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare Europe’s vulnerability to drug-supply disruption. Still, it remains by far the world leader in pharmaceutical products.
With the advent of novel tobacco products and the tobacco industry falsely marketing them as less harmful, the adage “prevention is better than cure” has never been more important.
According to the estimates by the World Health Organisation, Africa is one of two regions – along with the Eastern Mediterranean region – where smoking rates are on the rise.
An antigen test was given emergency use authorization by the FDA in early May. A biochemist explains how COVID-19 antigen tests work.
Preventing people from dying alone in a pandemic takes ingenuity and money, but it’s the right thing to do.
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It's important for people to seek proper information about the coronavirus and not believe everything they see and hear on social media.
South Africa’s post-apartheid leaders have failed to properly prepare the military for secondary roles such as peacekeeping, let alone to a fight a virus.
Challenges that women and girls in low-income areas face have been worsened by measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19.
An easy question, but a difficult answer.
Africa needs to be better prepared to deal with future pandemics. That should start with a re-assessment of how countries invest in – and support – local research.
This is the first time that camel handlers in East Africa have been shown to have been exposed to MERS.
Two thirds of South African women are overweight or obese and their babies are three times more likely to become obese themselves.
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