Three Admitted For Avian Flu Test
Bernama, 24 Mar 2006

KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Three more people had been admitted on Thursday after they were believed to have caught the flu bug in the northern states of the Peninsular where the avian flu virus had been detected.

Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said that the three were found to be staying within the 300-metre radius from where the avian flu virus had been detected in the poultry and the migratory wild birds.
 

"They were admitted so that tests can be conducted on the H5N1 virus, and they can leave if the results are negative," he told reporters after launching an international conference on Robotic Urologic Surgery at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital here, Friday.

The three cases involved a 21-year-old man in Taiping, a three-year-old boy in Penang, and a 23-year-old man in Batu Gajah.

Dr Chua said todate Malaysia had not recorded any positive H5N1 virus cases.-- BERNAMA