Mount Ayliff
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Three Somali nationals are being treated in an isolation unit in the Eastern Cape after they fell ill with an unidentified disease, the Eastern Cape health department said on Friday.Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said a fourth Somali had been declared dead on arrival at Mount Ayliff hospital.
He said the four men arrived in the town of Ntabankulu earlier this week.
They had diarrhoea accompanied by dehydration, severe headaches and vomiting.
As a precaution, the three survivors had been put into isolation. Their condition on Friday was stable.
Doctors suspected that the illness could be meningitis, Kupelo said.
Also as a precaution, the department would track down people they had been in contact with in Ntabankulu, to guard against any possible spread of infection.
Source: Sapa