Abu Dhabi: Emirati family’s visit to a Malaysian bird zoo proved fatal, when twin daughters contracted an unknown virus.
Father Omar Al Ghafli told Al Ittihad that a day after the trip his three-months-old daughter, Ghalia, started vomiting, coughing and had breathing trouble.
Omar, a lawyer based in Sharjah, told the newspaper, “Doctors there said her lungs were damaged by the infection. They gave her medication but she died later.”
“Her twin sister Maha also fell ill there. I rushed back to the UAE and took her to Khalifa Hospital, where she is still lying.”