Malaria scare
NZPA-Reuter Edinburgh Doctors were standing by to treat more cases of malaria yesterday after two competitors in the Commonwealth Games village were taken ill and showed symptoms of the tropical disease. , One competitor from Malawi is under observation in hospital while another, also from the African State, became ill yesterday, Dr Alastair Donald told Reuters. “We are on the look out for more cases,” he said. “It is the people who
come from hot African climates who are at risk. The disease is endemic in their blood and our colder climates tend to make it flare up.” Dr Donald, one of 20 volunteer doctors providing round-the-clock cover for athletes and officials in the village, said the first case was admitted to Edinburgh’s City Fever Hospital last Monday after the patient fell ill on the flight to Scotland. The second patient has been confined to bed in the village with a high fever while preliminary blood tests are made.
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Press, 23 July 1986, Page 1
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