A nurse who went missing during a hospital trial is expected to die if he does not receive treatment for malaria in the next 24 hours. The trial was in which he was given the disease voluntarily.

Stating that Mathew Lloyd, the 35-year-old nurse’s disappearance was completely not called for, his family has asked people to find him out.

A spokesman for Hampshire police said, "We are extremely concerned. Six out of eight of those taking part in the trials are now showing signs of malaria and are being treated. If he has not received medical attention within the next 24 hours, it will be fatal."

Lloyd was asked to go to a hospital or a doctor for getting treatment for malaria and treatment could be given to him by a pharmacist also for which a prescription was also not needed.

The police states that last week he had called up the Southampton general hospital, where he works, to inform that he is unwell and he has not been seen since then.

On Thursday he could not make it to a hospital appointment in Oxford where he would have been given a vaccine injection.

The police had on Thursday forcefully entered Lloyd's flat in the Shirley area of Southampton that was found empty.

Attempts to trace Lloyd are on.