KUCHING: A 24-year-old Zimbabwean studying here has been placed in an isolation ward at the Sarawak General Hospital with fever but authorities said there is no link at the moment to the Ebola disease.
“He is coughing but not vomiting or suffering from diarrhoea. We are just taking high precautionary measures,” said Sarawak Assistant Public Health Minister Datuk Dr Jerip Susil, adding that it was the flu season and the extraordinary measures were activated because the patient fit the (Ebola) profile.
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