A nurse infected with viral haemorrhagic fever while treating a patient has been cleared of the disease, a spokesperson for the Medi-Clinic hospital group said on Thursday.

"Clinical tests have shown that the nursing sister who was treated for viral haemorrhagic fever at Morningside Medi-Clinic has no further trace of the disease, is no longer infectious and is on the road to recovery," Medi-Clinic northern region marketing manager Melinda Pelser said in a statement.

"These tests have been run three times over the past few days and all the results came back negative."

Pelser said that although she was being treated as a ward patient, the nurse, whose name has been withheld, would remain in "normal isolation" for ten days to help her recuperation.

The nurse treated one of three people who died of the virus at the hospital. A fourth person, a cleaner, had traces of the virus in her body when she died while also afflicted with meningitis.

The nurse's condition was confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and announced on 12 October.

The hospital is still monitoring 39 people who had contact with those known to have been infected, but none have shown signs of the disease.

Sapa