Monday, 09 Dec 2019 10:26 PM MYT
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 9 — Sabah Health and People’s Wellbeing Minister Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung said the State Health Department had been conducting inspections around the homes of children infected with polio virus to prevent it from spreading. “Investigations to identify the cause of the infection are ongoing including the collection of stool samples for testing from close contacts of children and environmental samples to detect the presence of the virus.
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