Tygerberg Hospital, spokesperson for the Western Cape's Department of Health, Mark van der Heever, said in a statement."We express our sincere condolences to her family, friends and colleagues. Mrs Kepkey was a well-respected member of the Senior Nursing Team. "Her hard work and commitment will always be remembered and missed by her colleagues. This is…
IOL reported that the cleaner alleged that they were told to use Jik and other cleaning products to sanitise the J Ground.READ | 20 liquor licenses suspended in Western Cape for illegal alcohol salesThis followed the infection and death of nurse Ntombizakithi Ngidi last week.She is the second nurse to die of Covid-19 in the…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out