MIRI: There is no information blackout of health tragedies or a disease outbreak in the Bakun hydro-electric dam project site in the Belaga district, state leaders and the developer of the project said yesterday.
Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam, who is State Disaster Relief Committee chairman, said he had not received any information of nine workers in Bakun dying from melioidosis and leptospirosis (caused by rat urine bacteria) infection or that 50 other workers had contracted the disease while working at the site.
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