insert_link Business / Economics South Africa’s beef industry under pressure due to FMD outbreak Photo: The Herald South Africa’s Department of Agriculture has confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on a commercial farm in Moqhaka Local Municipality, near Kroonstad in the Free State. The farm was placed under quarantine on 8 July after livestock exhibited clinical symptoms and positive test results were confirmed. As of July 2025, a staggering 270 outbreaks across five provinces have been recorded, with 249 still unresolved. KwaZulu-Natal […] today15 July, 2025
insert_link Africa R21 anti-malaria vaccine is a game changer: scientist who helped design it reflects on 30 years of research, and what it promises By Adrian Hill, University of Oxford Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the RTS,S and the R21 vaccines. Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford and chief investigator for the R21 vaccine, tells Nadine Dreyer why he thinks this is a great era for malaria control. What makes malaria […] today25 April, 2024
