The department of health says there is no cockroach outbreak in the country.
The department has refuted reports that the country is experiencing a massive flare — up of cockroaches.Last week, CropLife SA, an NPO that advocates for use of legal pesticides among other things, issued an alert about a “near pandemic” outbreak of German cockroaches throughout the country, with four provinces being the most affected.due to the humid and wet conditions this past summer.
“The department has received multiple media inquiries on this and we would have announced an outbreak of any nature and this is done by no-one else but the minister. No private organisation can announce an outbreak.“The NICD [National Institute For Communicable Diseases of SA] would have also communicated with the department and as it stands we have had no alert. And if the outbreak is not within our scope of work, another government department would have announced.
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