S Africa quarantines 100 over mystery virus
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Health authorities in South Africa are on high alert, quarantining more than 100 people who are suspected of coming into contact with a mysterious virus that has killed at least three people in Johannesburg.
The World Health Organisation has been asked to help South Africa's health authorities find the cause of the deadly disease.
They only became aware of the outbreak after the deaths of a paramedic and a nurse.
Both medical attendants treated a woman from Zambia who died with similar symptoms, including internal and external bleeding.
Doctors suspect the cause is a haemorrhagic fever, but they have so far failed to make a definitive diagnosis.
Authorities have reassured the public that the suspected virus has been contained. More than 100 people are under close medical observation.
