Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says there's no need to impose any travel restrictions on any country due to the new sub-variant of globally dominant Omicron dubbed 'The Kraken'.
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says there's no need to impose any travel restrictions on any country due to the new sub-variant of globally dominant Omicron dubbed 'The Kraken'.
The World Health Organization said that there were two clades of the monkeypox virus - the West African clade and the Congo Basin or Central African clade. A clade is a group of organisms with a single ancestor.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday revealed that the continent has had more than 1,800 suspected monkeypox cases since the beginning of the year.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirms that a second case of monkeypox has been identified in a 32-year-old male residing in Cape Town
This week, South Africa recorded its first case of monkeypox. We asked experts and consulted WHO and NICD documents to answer our top 10 questions about the disease.