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Sabah sharks face danger of skin infection
Ruben Sario
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An infected whitetip shark at Sipadan, Sabah.
KOTA KINABALU: Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of why a skin infection is afflicting a shark species in Sabah’s east coast.
A team of Universiti Malaysia Sabah researchers and their counterparts from Sabah Parks are now at the diving paradise of Pulau Sipadan, near Semporna, to carry out the probe.
Sabah Parks education division chief Nasrulhakim Maidin told FMT that a preliminary report on the team’s findings was expected in early May.
Diver Jason Isley of Scubazoo, a Sabah-based international filming service provider, posted photos on his social media of an infected whitetip shark he photographed near Sipadan in early April. ....

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