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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Malaysia : Drop in Dengue Cases (but 1 fatality reported)

A report via Malaysian Digest :

" KUALA LUMPUR, 15 SEPTEMBER, 2010: One death due to dengue involving an 11-year-old girl was reported for the period Sept 5 to 11, raising the overall total to 105 deaths this year.

The Director-General of Health Services, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, said dengue fever cases, however, were reported to have dropped by 21 per cent during the period to 898 cases compared with 1,144 cases reported in the previous week.

"Two states had reported an increase in the number of cases last week namely Terengganu (15 cases) and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya(four cases)," he said in a statement, here today.

He said the total number of cases reported from January to September this year rose by 13 percent to 34,730 compared with 30,588 cases for the same period last year."

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