Via The Star :
" MARAN: The six villagers, who died within a week after taking part in the search and rescue operation of a drowning victim in the Lubuk Yu recreational forest near here, have been confirmed to be affected by two different strains of bacteria – leptospirosis and melioidosis.
The dead were identified as Zakaria Ayub, 52, Azizam Abdullah, 58, Timothy Hoo Seng Heng, 29, Zainal Abidin Ismail, 56, Lim Sin Lai, 55, and Mohd Ali Abdullah, 60.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday, the villagers succumbed to the disease due to delayed medical treatment.
Seven others were undergoing treatment, three of them at the Temerloh hospital, two at Jengka Hospital and one each at Selayang Hospital and Kuantan Medical Centre.
“The six who died became ill a week after taking part in the search and rescue operation and suffered from fever, cough, muscle aches and diarrhoea,” he told reporters after attending a briefing on the incident here."
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