Gunung Pulai waterfall off-limits for two weeks after teen dies of leptospirosis


  • Nation
  • Friday, 19 May 2017

JOHOR BARU: The waterfall at the Gunung Pulai Recreational Forest has been ordered to close for two weeks from Friday (May 19) after an 18-year-old boy died from leptospirosis or rat urine disease.  

State Health, Environment, Education and Information committee chairman Datuk Ayub Rahmat said the closure until June 1 was necessary for investigations to be carried out.  

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