Truck driver in Dbn has cholera
2008-11-19 22:33
Durban - A truck driver who arrived from Zimbabwe has been diagnosed with cholera, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Wednesday.
Spokesperson Leon Mbangwa said that the man had been placed in an isolation ward in Durban's Addington Hospital.
He said the man had left Zimbabwe last Thursday with his brother and arrived in Durban on Saturday morning.
The truck driver and his brother checked into a local Durban lodge on Saturday morning. By Saturday evening the man was vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea.
He was first admitted to City Hospital before being transferred to Addington Hospital.
"He was in a semi coma condition at that time, so it was hard to get information from him. It has emerged that where he was in Zimbabwe, people were suffering from diarrhoea," said Mbangwa.
He said that tests had confirmed that the man had cholera. His brother was under observation.
The health department was examining the lodge where the two men had stayed to ensure there was no contamination.
- SAPA