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Storm recovery efforts continue across Western Cape

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NICD detects 2 polio virus strains in Cape Town wastewater

Seynabou Diop works at a station in a laboratory where the hantavirus genome was sequenced from the April 2026 outbreak, at Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Image credit: Reuters/Ricci Shryock

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The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) African Regional Certification Commission declared South Africa polio-free in 2019. Image credit: , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

NICD detects 2 polio virus strains in Cape Town wastewater

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