5 person died of dengue fever last week

Speaker from Ministry of Health said, 5 person died of dengue fever last week, 4 person from Selangor and 1 from Kuala Lumpur.
There are 874 dengue fever case reported last week, he said dengue fever had increase in 8 states in Malaysia which is Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Johor, Sabah, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Perak. Until today the total of dengue fever reported are 19275 cases. Malaysia has 63 high risk areas whereby 57 areas are in Selangor, 4 areas in Kuala Lumpur and 2 areas in Johor.
On top of that, there are 15 cases Chikungunya reported last week where the total has increase to 96 cases today, most of the Chikungunya reported in Kedah, Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Sarawak.

Dengue Fevers increase drastically in Malaysia

Dengue Fevers have increase drastically in Malaysia. Between 4 to 17 Jan, Malaysia has detected 3211 cases of Dengue Fever with 8 deaths. 63% of Dengue Fever detected at Klang river. This is 112% increase if compare to last year, whereby only 1514 cases with 4 deaths. Due to much of raining day, Ministry of Health needs cooperation from all people to cut down mosquito disease by preventing mosquito breeding start from their home. At the same time, Ministry of Health has appoints contractors to carry on the mosquito fogging at affected and high risk areas. Ministry of Health also allocate 1.7million for all these activities and transmits information through media such as newspaper, health brochure and catalog to increase people awareness of mosquito disease. Other than Selangor, Johor, Penang, Kedah and Sarawak also increase of Dengue Fever for this year.