Recent Achievements
- Surveillance in South Africa for hospital-based severe acute respiratory illness and outpatient clinic-based influenza-like illness is expanding to improve geographic representation in all nine provinces and to test for additional diseases of high public health importance, including tuberculosis (TB), pneumocystis pneumonia, and pertussis (whooping cough).
- Newly published national estimates describe for the first time the burden of influenza in South Africa; nearly 10,000 deaths and 40,000 hospitalizations are due to influenza each year.
- Regional influenza surveillance capacity reaches more than ten countries in Southern Africa.
- The Influenza Program also assists with national inventories of capabilities for pandemic preparedness and rapid response trainings.
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/southafrica/what/influenza.htm