Sabah Zika patient dies


A safety reminder: A Perak Health Department officer sticking a Zika virus alert inside a bus at the Amanjaya Bus Terminal in Ipoh.

PETALING JAYA: The second Malaysian who tested positive for Zika locally has died of heart complications.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed that the 61-year-old ethnic Dusun man from Sabah, who was admitted with multiple health problems, died at 5.30pm yesterday.

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