04/12/2008 18:30:18
The Morningside Medi-Clinic has maintained that the South African man who died in Brazil this week could not have contracted the deadly arena virus strain that hit the facility earlier this year.
The 53-year-old Gauteng engineer was admitted to hospital in Rio de Janeiro last week suffering from haemorrhagic fever like symptoms and died on Tuesday.He had undergone a shoulder operation at the Medi-Clinic in October shortly after three patients who had contracted the disease had died at the facility.
The clinic's Melinda Pelser said it was highly unlikely that his death could be related to the arena virus.“The time of death, the window period and possible contact with the disease does not correlate. The patient was admitted to Morningside-Clinic for an elective procedure during October and the treatment date does not fit in to the time line of the disease,” Pelser said. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said it was still waiting for blood test results to determine the man's exact cause of death.
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