S.Africa says suspected Marburg case is malaria
Thu April 21, 2005 12:55 PM GMT+02:00
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A sick Angolan traveller under observation in South Africa as a possible victim of the deadly Marburg virus has been determined to be suffering from malaria, health officials said on Thursday.
Gauteng provincial health department spokesman Popo Maja said doctors were no longer observing the man, who was taken to hospital on Tuesday after arriving on a flight from Angola, which is battling the world's worst ever Marburg outbreak.
"We are ruling out Marburg," Maja told Reuters. "He is responding very well to malaria treatment, and is no longer under observation in the isolation ward."
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/newsst/newsst1114144370.aspx:
A man who fell ill on an aircraft from Angola on Tuesday night and was feared to have Marburg fever appeared only to have had malaria, the health department said on Wednesday. Department spokesman Solly Mabotha said the man, who originally comes from Eritrea, would be held under observation in an isolation ward at the Johannesburg Hospital for a "while longer".
writes "A female passenger fell ill on a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft from Luanda (Angola) Tuesday night shortly before it was due to land. It was feared the air passenger had deadly Marburg fever; in fact she was suffering from malaria.
As a precautionary measure the aircraft was also placed under quarantine. The plane* has been disinfected and will not be used it until SAA gets the go-ahead.
South African Airways SA 055 4 De Fevereiro (LAD), Luanda, Angola 14:05 Johannesburg Int'l (JNB), South Africa Terminal A 18:20 Non-stop / 744