South Africa: Infected nurse still in hospital

The nursing sister being treated for an arenavirus is still in a serious condition at the Morningside Medi-Clinic, a spokesperson said on Monday. “She is still serious, but stable,” said Melinda Pelser.
She was admitted earlier in October after developing symptoms of the virus which has been linked to the deaths of three other people treated [...]

South Africa: From the W.H.O website

Unknown disease in South Africa and Zambia
10 October 2008 — (Snip) Laboratory analysis has been conducted in South Africa at the Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service. Samples have, so far, tested negative for a series of viral haemorrhagic fevers and other common infectious disease pathogens. [...]

‘Mysterious disease in Zambia not ebola’

‘Mysterious disease in Zambia not ebola’
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The woman from Zambia who died in South Africa from a mysterious disease was in fact afflicted by cerebral edema and multi-organ failure, health experts disclosed here, putting to rest suspicions that she was hit by the deadly ebola virus.The state-run Times of Zambia reported [...]

Zambia partners with WHO against mystery fever

Zambia partners with WHO against mystery fever
Zambia has partnered with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to investigate the unknown disease that has claimed four lives in South Africa. Authorities in that country also say none of the people who have died from the mysterious infectious disease are Zambians.Earlier, it was reported that two Zambian [...]

Undiagnosed Mysterious Disease in South Africa: Zambia

This is from the Promed  website:
Date: Mon 6 Oct 2008
From: Amy Cantlay inka@iwayafrica.com
I have just read the posting (Undiagnosed fatalities – South Africa ex Zambia: RFI 20081005.3139) on your site, and it appears to be rather misleading.  The chronological order of events (as I can gather) is as follows (None of this information has yet [...]