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2,800 quarantined in Malaysian police college after influenza death
Mar 11, 2011, 3:47 GMT
Kuala Lumpur - Almost 2,800 people have been quarantined at a police training centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur after a trainee died from an influenza-like illness, officials said Friday.
The training facility was sealed off soon after a 25-year-old police cadet died Tuesday from viral infection.
Health ministry officials have been monitoring the nearly 2,000 trainees and 850 staff workers for flu-like symptoms.
The Star newspaper said that 31 cadets were currently being treated at a nearby hospital. All the patients were reported to be in stable condition.
'About 412 trainees who had been in direct contact with those affected by the adenovirus had been isolated in a separate area,' the centre's commander Zulkifli Mohamed was quoted as saying by the report.
He said the training facility would only be reopened after a clearance by the health ministry.
Adenovirus victims experience influenza-like symptoms ranging from mild respiratory infections to pneumonia. Infections occur through direct contact or transfer of bodily fluids.
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