South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskundeHumansSouth AfricaChildPoisoningFemale
Tracking poison ingestion deaths for South Africa: The need for access to timely reliable data.
M Prinsloo, R A Roomaney, I Neethling, N W Basera, P Groenewald, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw
Published: 202510.7196/SAMJ.2025.v115i5.2993
Abstract
The President of South Africa addressed the nation on 15 November 2024 regarding the rise in food-borne illnesses and related child deaths. In the absence of a clear profile of injury deaths from official cause-of-death data, we used empirical, natio…
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