A four-month-old baby is being treated for cholera at the Karl Bremer Hospital in Western Cape, the province's health department said on Thursday.
Spokesperson Faiza Steyn said the child from Wallacedene informal settlement in Kraaifontein had been stabilised. He was admitted on December 6.
"The specimen of this case was forwarded to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) for further laboratory analysis, to ascertain the strain of cholera that was identified," said Steyn.
The child had no history of recent travel to Zimbabwe and or close contact with a cholera case.
Laboratory investigations on contacts of this case were negative for the disease, said Steyn.
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"It is not known at this stage where he could have got the disease from but hot weather and poor environmental living conditions could be some of the factors," she said. - Sapa
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