Kuching's mental hospital quarantined over Sars fear

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Staff and patients of a Malaysian mental institution were quarantined Sunday after three patients displayed Sars symptoms, the Health Ministry said.

The quarantine, which begins Sunday, involves at least 284 people in a mental institution in Kuching, Sarawak, the ministry's deputy director-general Ismail Merican told reporters.

Three patients at the institution had fallen ill earlier this month and were hospitalised for pneumonia, he said.

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