The health ministry said it had not confirmed that information, but said one of the suspected causes of death was the arenavirus, which is spread through the excrement or blood of rats and between humans through saliva or other body fluids.
South African authorities had said at the end of October that the new virus appeared to have been contained.
Source: Reuters
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