Two types of bacteria were found in baby formula tested at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, but toxicology tests haven’t been done.
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Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital:- Possible link between baby formula, deaths in Joburg hospital
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#Listeriosis: Why your Woolies ham might not be safe
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The head of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ listeria investigation, Juno Thomas, tells us which foods to bin and how.
At midnight on 4 March, scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) finally found the source of South Africa’s listeria outbreak: polony from Enterprise Foods’ Polokwane factory.
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Listeria: Follow SA’s medical sleuths as they chase a killer in a race against time
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A mechanical hum fills the small room where James Bond is working to track down a killer. His name is printed in black letters on the side of his body.
But this James Bond isn’t the world’s most famous secret agent. It’s one of three gene-sequencing machines at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg.
Working along its Matrix-inspired counterparts, Neo and Niobe, Bond is the size of an average desktop printer. But the state-of-the-art devices can determine the genetic make-up of animal and plant cells in about three days.
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