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Four quarantined with suspected bird flu in Malaysia KUALALUMPUR, March 18, 2006 (AFP) - Four people are being tested for suspected bird flu in Malaysia after developing fevers near the site of two outbreaks in poultry, officials said on Saturday. The four are in quarantine in two hospitals in the northern state of Perak, they said. "They will be quarantined for a few days. We need to ascertain the cause of their fever," said Health Ministry disease control department director Ramlee Rahmat. "The (test) results will be known by Sunday," he added. More than 90 people have died from bird flu in China, Southeast Asia, Iraq and eastern Turkey since 2003. So far, there have been no human deaths in Malaysia due to the virus. Ramlee said one of the suspected victims was a 43-year-old chicken breeder who lives a kilometre (about half-a-mile) from an outbreak in Changkat Tualang village, and another was his seven-year-old neighbour. The other two live about 10 kilometres from the Laketown Resort nature reserve where the disease has also been discovered.
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