Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu in South African hospital for a “stubborn infection”

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Source: Associated Press

Published on Thu Jul 16 2015

JOHANNESBURG—It’s time for retired archbishop Desmond Tutu to begin saying “no” to public events in order to conserve his health, his daughter said Thursday, as the Nobel laureate remained hospitalized for a persistent infection.

Tutu, 83, was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday where he is receiving an “intensive course” of antibiotics to fight a “stubborn infection,” the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said earlier in a statement.

“We are confident that he will recover well from the treatment,” Tutu’s daughter, Mpho, said in a televised press briefing.

Tutu’s illness is not related to prostate cancer, for which he has been treated for years, Mpho Tutu said. It is uncertain how long he will remain in hospital, she said. She would not reveal the exact nature of his infection.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/07/16/retired-archbishop-desmond-tutu-in-south-african-hospital-for-a-stubborn-infection.html

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1. Get well

[WinkyDink]

2. Sounds like MRSA.

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3. It could be a lot of things. The problem is resistance against many common antibiotics has become a

real problem, and I suspect it is more likely something like this, and they may not of done an initial culture to try to identify the infection, and which antibiotics would be most effective against it, but instead just gave him a broad spectrum antibiotic assuming it would take care of the infection.

I suspect they know what the infection is now, and probably have him on IV antibiotics, assuming this is a bacterial infection

I wish him well