No Zambian medical personnel who treated the South African woman suffering from a lethal mysterious flu like disease has died.
And neither has any Zambian who came into contact with Cecilia Van Deventer died, from the disease which at present is being considered incurable.
Van Deventer who was being treated at a private hospital in Lusaka died later in South Africa where she had been evacuated for further treatment.
The Paramedic who escorted her and a nurse who attended to her is also reported to have died.
The driver of the ambulance that ferried Van Deventer is said to be dead as well.
Patients with the disease develop a fever, cough and bleed from various parts of their bodies before dying.
The Executive Director at Care for Business Hospital where Van Deventer was treated, Ramesh Panchal, said all the emplyees are safe.
He said Van Deventer was treated at the hospital but later sought attention from two other hospitals before leaving for South Africa.
And Dr. Panchal disclosed that the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in South Africa has sent a team of experts to investigate the disease.
He said Professor, Bob Swanepoel, from the institute visited his hospital on Monday.
And Health Minister, Brian Chituwo says there is no medical evidence to suggest that Van Deventer contracted the lethal flu like mysterious disease from Zambia.
Dr. Chituwo says there is equally no evidence of any Zambian who have contracted the disease.
He told ZNBC news in Lusaka on Tuesday evening that doctors and nurses who attended to her within Zambia are all well.
Dr Chituwo, announced the outbreak of the mysterious disease in a statement released on Monday.
ZNBC
That is good news. South African media is painting a different picture. They are even denying their own dead claiming they are Zambians…
now you are talking, this is not a zambian disease, SA pliz sort it out yourself and stop pointing fingers at us!
Lets hope they get to the bottom of this. Zambia can ill afford an epidemic of such a mysterious disease.
Lets hope they get to the bottom of this. Zambia can ill afford an epidemic of such a mysterious disease. LT reported the biased article word for word.
hmmm im sure this story will change again, just like the “stable” saga
Am from HH on Muvi TV race to plot 1 wit Frank MutibIla,am now convinced he is the best.The youngman is clear wit his vision 4 Zambia.He is issue based.
Tht MUVI tv programme was explosive.HH ni mulilo bane.The man really drives a hard bargain & he is eloquent in his speech.HH has made me a proud youth.
Because of our stupidity we are going to continue being labelled as the cause a diseases. Why cant we build our own hospitals and equip them with medicine and modern equipment.
Its a very big shame to all Zambians
Am told Sata has complained to ECZ he has information that most Election agents will be UPND so that they rig the elections.Is Sata normal?
Sata is now old mweh
Where is SATA the dictator to listen to the brilliance of the young man HH our next president. All these issues happening will be a thing of the past. VIVA HH for Zambia. Not these old folks who are fearing to go home and rest but continue insulting others. Umwaiche mukali nshaishibe. Bane we have only one Zambia to protect, nourish and cherish. HH is sharp almost like BARACK OBAMA.
#6 use some common sense,write the above under politics.You have everything at your disposal but you misuse them.Leave some space for those who will write on the above topic.Don’t be like the tonga tribalist hehehehe who used to talk about HH under any heading
#12,are there any rules tht say only stick to the above topic on this blog?I was jst so impressed with HH’s interview ‘race to plot 1’ on Muvi tv & decided to give credit where its due.Thats all.
#8 take it easy. I can understand why you feel ashamed. You are living in the RSA from your flag. Anyway, working in the health sector one can understand why RSA jumped to that conclusion. That is contained in every countries ‘state of alert’ plan. In light of a breakout of a unknown disease the country’s health sector has to implement it’s ‘state of alert’ plan. The pasient came from Zambia and then it is obvious that they will suspect Zambïa.
I hope Dr. Chituwo has informed the RSA government on their findings.
#12,if the only mistake i’ve made to u is to mention the name ‘HH’,then am sry bt this youngaman is headed for victory so get used to hearing his name everywhere Sir/Madam.
Ba shikulu ba Sata is cracy.Anyway,the older one gets,the childish they become in there reasoning.
Sata is a ” missed call. “
# 17, ha ha ha.You have made my night.
#14, I pity you. you are acting out of ignorance. if only you knew how your Zambian politicains are treated when they go to South Africa for specialised medical treatment, them you would agree with me. Chiluba for example, had the chance to meke UTH the best hopital in the world, but what did he do? its sad story.
HH’s supporters take it easy, what if the man loses? Even if sata doesn’t become president, he will still beat hh, no wonder you are always talking about sata instead of the topic at hand.
#19 don’t pity me. I commented on the fact that you feel ashamed. My point of departure is that even if we did have well equiped hospitals the deceased would have probably died. They have died in RSA despite the good medical facility.
I do agree with you though that our politicians are being flown for medical treatment to RSA when they could have improved the medical facility (although I don’t understand when you write ‘ if only you knew how your Zambian politicians are treated’ Is treated in this context referring to attitude or medical care?)
Anyway my point here is that people will die of a strange disease irrespective of the medical facility in the country.
Hope I’m clear
Correct! They are treated with greatest attitude of unfairness. yet these are men and women that we treasure so much. Am very Patriotic. But i am hurt. If things were well in Zambia, you might never have moved to a far land to become an economic refuge. you might have been paying tax so that your grand parents can be accessed with proper medical facilities. there you are, paying tax to devlop other people’s countries.
Thank for lowering your tone.
#20,have u been following the political wind of late?Sata will be
Anonimous even if HH loses he still can go for it in 2011. What about MC and RB what will happen if they lost?
Sata will definately lose more of his votes in Luapula. He willnot get the % he got in 2006. HH will get more votes in terms of % than what he got in 2006. Tili mu Luapula and we are feeling the HH waves rocking the atmosphere. The votes Sata will actual get will be sympathetic votes. Ati kale ba amba nabena ba tekeko.
why do we like to jump to conclusions? to confidently say the disease was not contracted in zambia, and has been contained we need to be certain that no one else has contracted it…how do we do this without even ascertaining where she was before getting to CFB?
Sata will lose and flee to Zaire pretending there was rigging.
We need more info about the deceased(MHSRIP).This not about Zambia or South Africa, we are in a global world. We need to know where she is been the last six months,whats she been doing, whom she meet, where she is been, her health history….it is just not enough to say who has better what and what? we need to be objective for a common good.Otherwise if it proves to be a contagious disease the whole region will be trouble
AT LEAST WE CAN SMILE! THE SOUTH AFRICANS WERE TREATING US LIKE VERNOMOUS SNAKES. THAT PIECE OF NEWS IS GOOD NEWS!!
#12. I ma the Maestro Hhehhehhehhe, now disguised as a PF supporter. i jumped into the ubwato yesterday. I will jump out of it on 30th October 2008 when Zambians of all walks of Life vote for the man of the moment HH.
otherwise, some of my names are Hamwaambwa Mugungulu Mwaanga. I come from the same place as VJ in Mapanza, Choma.
Continue exposing your Bemba-tribalism by yourself, I am now in the ubwato.
“Kalasiti boyi kanalengesa” – Danny.
#13 the title is” NO ZAMBIAN HAS DIED FROM THE MYSTERIOUS DISEASE”,and you write”im from watching HH on MUVI TV and so on. What sense does that make?Im trying to educate people like you to do it right because you are space and time wasters. We fail to relate the comments and hence find it boring to read through all the blog.It takes just a click of a mouse to post on the right topic at hand.
#31, please, we beg, twapapata, twakomba, tipempa, lwakupa, tünalombi*, let us avoid insulting Honourable Sata or any other Zambian. This is time to show level-heardness and so respect, umuchinshi, ibulemu, ulemu….
*sourced from w w w . postzambia . com / post – r e a d_article . ph p ? article Id = 46913
If being poor means to victimised then the South Africans have got all wrong,God is on the side of the poor.
google Cecilia Van Deventer and check her profile on facebook.
Ok people get over it,not a single news paper blaims it to a country they are merely stating the obvious and giving info about Mrs Van Deventer,yes believed or not she has a name,and for crying out loud show some respect,stop blaiming s.a when al the authorities wana do is help EVERYONE before it spread,no colour,no country,just this disease is bein attacked
For sure this disease did not origin here in Zambia, it is a strange development, unheard of in ZD. Please mwilabepesha ZD, yakayele.
It is the Xenophobic attitude of South Africans that blinds them from the cause of that mysterious dizizi. They think they live in another planet.
does that mean even the driver of the ambulance was not Zambian? What sort of a country has drivers as expatriates. The paramedics was South African, the Nurse,even the driver!
let them not use zambia for thier dirty diseases,
# 22 or rather Stanford. For you own information I am not an economical refugee. My leaving Zambia has nothing to not being able to secure a job.
It’s nothing about lowering my tone but rather understanding you. So why are you worried about the way our leaders are treated in RSA. I hope they be treated worse so that they improve the health sector in Zambia.
#8,please do not comment if you have no facts.am a zambian resident in Botswana and i was in Zed for the past 2 weeks and there is nothing of that sort and we cannot just aceept anything southafircans say.that woman who died M.H.S.R.I.P should have gotten that condition from somewhere not Zed.what we should do is establish were she had been berfore going to zed.we cannot accept the blame.
It is now even scaring to move out of Zambia. Most of the movements are done across south africa. It has been said that she used to keep horses and moved thought in Africa and she liked moving barefoot. I strongly believe she got that from outside Lusaka though the disease matured when she was back in Zambia. Its very hard to judge cause only her would know some of the dangerous places she has visited.
May God bless Zambia and keep us safe in his hands. I hope the ministry will continue with investigations and research at a fast rate.
if it was from Zed, y didnt any of the Drs in Zed die of the same. is it that Zambians are “die hard”?
#31 You cannot detatch this topic from politics. We have these problems because we have had useless pipo as leaders of the likes of Chiluba and Sata to take this country forward. Instead of using our resources to develop the country, our money ended into their pockets and prostitutes. That is why we need real change this time around to move the country forward.
# 8. FYI
Experts dismissed cautions over travel to Zambia, saying malaria was a more likely problem there.
Van Deventer lived in Zambia and is believed to have caught the virus from a tick. No other related cases have been reported in Zambia and an NICD expert is in Zambia tracking all Van Deventer’s contacts.
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It is indeed sad to learn of such things happening in africa coz i know we have enough problems already, whether the disease came from here or not its still sad coz one way or the other our people are affected. Am shocked some of you guys cant for a second stop talking bout sata, HH or RB and concentrate on the issue at hand, each one of us know who she/he will vote for so you can keep your opinion coz honestly by now people have already made up their minds on who they’ll vote for, i find it irritating to argue en insult each other over people who dont even care bout you. Talk bout things that make sense please!!!
SA should come out Very clearly and inform the out side world that it is not a Zed disease.Otherwise in my Lodge, the tourist are washing hands with vinegar and lemon juice after you shaking hands.
They are scared of contracting a lethal mysterious flu like disease.
#8 watch out, grow up
This is a disease, not politics. No one wants to defame Zambia. It has nothing to do with SA or Zambia. Shame on the person who says: “SA should come out Very clearly and inform the out side world that it is not a Zed disease.” How would anyone, anywhere in the world, know that?
We have had the the same problem in the USA where people cannot separate medical science from national pride, and I believe every individual who has posted here knows exactly what I mean. I read about this on the internet in the US and we understand that it is NOT a Zambian OR an SA problem. Only time and science will solve this and hopefully this is so rare a disease that no one else dies.