12 Jan2015
Monkey malaria: No risk to the tourists
Kota Kinabalu: Preliminary results from clinical study on Plasmodium knowlesi, an emerging human malaria, found that the malaria can also be contracted by children. Professor Chris Drakeley of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, however, said there is currently no evidence to say tourists are at increased risk, nor that people can transmit the disease to other people via mosquitoes.
