No outbreak of polio detected so far; sole patient in Tuaran stable


Datuk Dr Christina Rundi (left) and Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung (right) during the press conference on Monday.

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Health Department has confirmed that the polio virus case in Tuaran involving a three-year-old baby has not spread.

The local boy was diagnosed on Friday (Dec 6) following symptoms of fever and weak joints is currently being treated at the isolation ward and reportedly stable.

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