It is now almost two months since household refuse has not been collected by Ray Nkonyeni Municipality due to the ongoing strike.
Garbage bags are lying all over, and flies are breeding at an alarming rate.
Fly-borne diseases could be hitting the South Coast pretty soon, and it’s likely to cost the KZN Department of Health a fortune to control this.
Is it at all possible for the department to come to the aid of all the residents in order to combat the problem?
This information was found on the department’s website: “More than 100 pathogens associated with the house fly may cause disease in humans and animals, including typhoid, cholera, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax ophthalmia and infantile diarrhoea, as well as parasitic worms. Pathogenic organisms are picked up by flies from garbage, sewage and other sources of filth, and then transferred on their mouthparts, through their vomitus, faeces and contaminated external body parts to human and animal food.”
This is a serious problem that we have on the South Coast, one which does not seem to be ending in the near future.
It is obviously going to get worse before any authorities take any action.
In the meantime, disease and illness could be spread by the flies.
NELIA LIEBENBERG
Southport
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