It is critical that healthcare and laboratory workers consider and test for cholera in people with acute watery diarrhoea, even in the absence of a travel history or a link to known cases, the NICD said.

Source: https://mg.co.za/environment/2023-04-05-cholera-sewage-infrastructure-failure-worsens-disease-spread/

Malaria, according to the NICD, can rapidly progress to severe illness, often with severe consequences.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202311030035.html

NICD centres are now empowered to classify notified cases based on predefined case definitions available on the NMC Reporting App.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/south-africa-introducing-exciting-new-notifiable-medical-conditions-nmc-reporting-app-features/

The department was notified by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) about the rising cases.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202306040088.html