Two years on from the Kuala Koh deaths, the scars still remain

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Not everyone in the village is convinced by the official explanation that they died from measles.

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Two years have passed since the measles outbreak in May 2019 killed 16 Bateq villagers in the remote outpost of Kuala Koh in Kelantan’s Gua Musang district. Families were ravaged and the social structure of the community was shaken as the national spotlight fell on this sheltered group. Now, as the pandemic rages in the outside world, we find many questions still unanswered.

The funds were to be used to meet various needs of the villagers, including the construction of a power supply system, water treatment system and learning centres.Still no answers, says village headman The "unknown disease" claimed the lives of 16 Bateq people in just one month, ranging in age from one to 63 years old. Among them, half of the dead were young people between 18 and 35 years old. After much speculation, the Health Ministry announced in September 2019 that the cause of mass deaths was measles.

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