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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Malaysia : 5 pupils under home quarantine

Via News Straits Times:

" Five pupils from a primary school in the district were ordered to go home yesterday after they came down with influenza-like illness.

The five, a girl and four boys from SK Kesang Tua, areon medicationand have been ordered to quarantine themselves at home for a week.

The five, a girl and four boys from SK Kesang Tua, areon medicationand have been ordered to quarantine themselves at home for a week.

State Deputy Health, Women and Family Development Committee chairman Chua Kheng Hwa said state Health Department officers detected the students having a temperature higher than 38ÂșC.

“A few pupils from the school had gone to the Kemendore Health Clinic for flu and fever over the past few days. As a preventive measure, we went to the school yesterday for a special screening,” he said “The five included two boys in Year Six, a boy and girl in Year Three and a boy in pre-school.”"

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