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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has called on healthcare workers to treat all patients presenting with diarrhoea as suspected cholera cases until proven otherwise.

Experts have warned healthcare workers not to wait for laboratory diagnoses, and to treat all diarrhoea cases as suspected cholera until proven otherwise.

On Sunday, the Gauteng Department of Health confirmed an outbreak of cholera in Hammanskraal.

The bacterial disease, cholera, was first detected in March of 2023 in north of Pretoria, Hammannskraal.

Public health experts worry an outbreak could be brewing in areas such as Diepsloot and Alexandra, where sewage runs through streets and rivers

Health experts are concerned that a far bigger outbreak could hit informal settlements due to poor sanitation systems.

Ten Cholera cases including one death have been recorded in the country since February. All cases were recorded in Gauteng.

Public health experts worry that a cholera outbreak could be brewing in large townships, like Diepsloot and Alexandra, where sewage runs through streets and rivers.

Public health experts worry that a cholera outbreak could be brewing in large townships like Diepsloot and Alexandra, where sewage runs through streets and rivers.

Three cases in Gauteng were imported or import-related from Malawi but the increasing number of locally acquired cases is raising concerns