Malaria: Five under watch

NST: Five Indian nationals were admitted to the Ipoh Hospital with malaria recently, with one of them identified as a carrier of the disease.
Health Ministry Disease Control director Dr Ramlee Rahmat said the five, all of whom worked at the same quarry, were released on Friday but were being kept under observation for signs of relapse.
"Our investigations revealed that one of them, who returned from India after a three-month holiday, was the carrier.
"He was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday after developing symptoms of malaria," he told the New Straits Times.
Dr Ramlee said four of the 40-year-old’s colleagues at the quarry in Simpang Pulai were admitted the following day with the same symptoms, and blood tests confirmed they had contracted malaria.