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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