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IOL (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... longer infectious and is on the road to recovery," Medi-Clinic northern region marketing manager Melinda Pelser said in a statement."These tests have been run three times over the past few days and all the results came back negative."Pelser said that although she was being treated as a ward patient, the nurse, whose name has been withheld, would remain in "normal isolation"...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
A nursing sister being treated for viral haemorrhagic fever at the Morningside Medi-Clinic has been moved from the intensive care unit, a spokesperson for the hospital group said on Wednesday."She remains in isolation and is slowly but steadily improving," Medi-Clinic northern region marketing manager Melinda Pelser said in a statement."Medical experts do not consider her to be infectious...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... "She's improved that much ... however, she's is still in isolation," said hospital spokesperson Melinda Pelser.Pelser said doctors indicated that the nursing sister was not infectious anymore.As a precautionary measure the woman would be kept in isolation for three more weeks.Thirty-nine people who had been in contact with her were still being monitored for signs of the virus....
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IOL (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... Medi-Clinic said on Tuesday."She's still very serious, but she is steadily improving," said Melinda Pelser."This is a new strain of arenavirus, so it is actually unknown (how long it will take until a full recovery), so the doctors are very cautious. We are just taking it one day at a time."The sister, whose name hasn't been released for her own privacy, contracted the virus while...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... Health Department cleared her from the disease," Mngadi said.Morningside Medi-Clinic spokesperson Melinda Pelser said they had not received any official notification that Mokubung had been infected with the arenavirus."We have not as yet received any official test results from the NICD stating the cause of her death," said Pelser."The cleaner died at another hospital, where...
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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... is recuperating from the disease at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, Morningside spokesperson Melinda Pelser told IOL.Pelser said as many as 31 people had been infected with the virus but have recovered. Sixty-six patients with symptoms of the arena virus are under observation at the Sir Albert hospital.A World Health Organization report on the first three deaths described the...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... September 14, two days after she was flown there from Zambia.Morningside Medi-Clinic spokesperson Melinda Pelser previously denied that Mokubung had died from the virus saying her death was caused by a chronic disease which she was diagnosed with months earlier.A Workmen's Compensation claim report signed last week by a doctor who treated Mokubung unequivocally links her death to...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... September 14, two days after she was flown there from Zambia.Morningside Medi-Clinic spokesperson Melinda Pelser previously denied that Mokubung had died from the virus saying her death was caused by a chronic disease which she was diagnosed with months earlier.A Workmen's Compensation claim report signed last week by a doctor who treated Mokubung unequivocally links her death to...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... yesterday she was in a serious but stable condition.However, Morningside Medi-Clinic spokesperson Melinda Pelser on Friday said the woman had shown the first signs that she is responding to antiviral treatment.Most of the people monitored by the hospital had been in contact with paramedic Hannes Els, 33.The virus arrived in South Africa when tourism manager Cecilia van Deventer, 36,...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Meanwhile, the number of people being monitored after coming into contact with patients who haddeveloped the viral haemorrhagic fever associated with the virus, has dropped from 94 to 31, spokesperson Melinda Pelser said.Health authorities announced earlier this month that they had isolated the virus, associated with multimammate mice -- a kind of wild mouse -- that excrete the virus...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
"She is still serious, but stable," said Melinda Pelser.The woman was admitted earlier in October after developing symptoms of the virus, which has been linked to the deaths of three other people treated at the clinic.A paramedic and another nursing sister are believed to have contracted it initially from a South African woman flown in from Zambia with what was initially thought to be...
