Fig 1.
Epidemic curve of the Plasmodium malariae outbreak in Sonsogon Paliu village, Kota Marudu district, Sabah, Malaysia during July–August 2019. The numbers of cases are plotted against the day of occurrence of malaria.
Fig 2.
Map of Kota Marudu district showing the location of Sonsogon Paliu village in the south-west of the district. The upper inset shows a map of Malaysia and the location of Kota Marudu district in Sabah state. There are no primary, secondary, tertiary or other road network connections to the village, and the next nearest village is more than 20km away. The lower inset is shows the symptomatic cases represented by red dots. Except for three cases the houses of all the symptomatic cases were very close to each other. Kota Marudu District Hospital is shown as a red-cross. Except for three cases the houses of all the symptomatic cases were very close to each other. Map was produced using QGIS Version 3.1.6 (QGIS Development Team, 2020). Source of shapefile: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/.