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Kuala Lumpur Still Faces Dengue Threat: Isa

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 (Bernama) -- Concerned with nine deaths due to dengue since early this year, the Federal Territories Ministry has placed its officers on the alert and intensified its anti-aedes efforts.
The number of deaths in the last three months was similar to that of the whole of last year.
Its Minister Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad said despite the decline in the number of cases since early this month, preventive measures must be intensified.
"It is too early to say that the dengue threat is improving as the trend fluctuates and we don't know what will happen next month," he told reporters after launching a gotong royong and anti-aedes campaign here Sunday.
He said 1,932 cases had been reported since early this year and this figure was still considered high.
Of these cases, 1,805 were dengue and the rest were haemorrhagic dengue fever.