Speaking at a press conference in Zagreb with Josipovic at his side, Roncevic said that Josipovic was an isolated case and that the health of the Croatian military police officers in Kabul was not at risk.
The defence minister said a reserve police officer had been sent to Kabul to replace Josipovic.
Colonel Erlend Bolfan, epidemiologist at the Croatian Army General Headquarters, said that German physicians in Kabul had found that Staff Sergeant Josipovic tested positive for a form of malaria, and that the tests carried out at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb showed the same. He added that further tests would be performed.
Josipovic said he was feeling fine, that he was undergoing tests, and that all Croatian military police officers in Kabul were well.
Asked by a reporter if the Croatian troops had been vaccinated, Bolfan said that Afghanistan was "epidemiologically very active", that the Croatian soldiers had been vaccinated against all known diseases, but that some new diseases might have emerged.