Friday, 10 Jan 2020 12:11 PM MYTHealth director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the two afflicted children were non-Malaysian who had not been vaccinated against polio prior to contracting the virus. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
He said fecal and genetic tests conducted by the World Health Organization Polio Regional Reference Laboratory in Australia came back yesterday, and showed a genetic relation to the same viral strain that broke out in the Philippines last year and which was detected in Malaysia’s first case involving a three-month-old boy in Sabah’s Tuaran district early last month.
“All patients are still being treated in the hospital and are in a stable condition,” he said in a statement.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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