{"id":23560,"date":"2026-02-10T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-records-14-malaria-related-deaths-850-infections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:20","slug":"sa-records-14-malaria-related-deaths-850-infections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-records-14-malaria-related-deaths-850-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 14 malaria related deaths, 850 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fourteen malaria related deaths and over 850 infections have been recorded in South Africa\u2019s (SA) Limpopo Province since April 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Department of Health says four deaths were recorded in 2026, after the floods in January.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Three deaths were recorded in Mopani district and one in Vhembe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Health Department has intensified malaria spraying in high risk areas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The department&#8217;s anti-malaria spraying campaign started in October 2025 and is expected to end in May 2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Malaria control team embarked in an indoor spraying, to prevent malaria infection in mosquito prevalent areas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About seventeen thousand houses in eight villages in the Mopani district have been sprayed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the villages is Mamaila village.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Health Department says the risk of malaria transmission has significantly increased due to the heavy rains.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Malaria symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, diarrhea and flu like symptoms.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16328,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23560","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Fourteen malaria related deaths","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26487,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23560\/revisions\/26487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}