EXCLUSIVE: Polio probe ongoing in ungazetted Tuaran village
Published on: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Health officials collect stool samples from a Tuaran village where polio disease was detected (Photo: Daily Express).
Tuaran: Health officials were seen carrying out on-site investigations on Wednesday into the re-emergence of polio in Malaysia through a case involving a three-month-old baby detected on Dec 6 in an ungazetted Tuaran village.
The case was detected in Kg Damat Baru, not Kg Damat, the Native Chief of the latter village, George Entong Poit, told a Daily Express team who visited both villages.
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The health officials carrying out the inspections declined comment at this stage of their investigations into Malaysia’s first polio case in almost 30 years.
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