Star: PUTRAJAYA: Concerted efforts by health authorities and the public to fight the dengue menace have paid off. The number of cases is on the decline less than two months after an alert on the disease was raised.
Health Ministry disease control division director Dr Ramlee Rahmat said that if the trend continued he expected the number of suspected cases weekly to dip to about 300 “possibly by the end of the year.”
“We managed to bring down the number of cases in five weeks. This is certainly a success but we will not rest on our laurels,” he told a press conference yesterday.
“Monitoring, surveillance, enforcement and preventive action, including gotong-royong, will continue.”
Dr Ramlee said these measures were important because Aedes breeding grounds had to be eradicated and adult mosquitoes killed to eliminate the dengue cycle.
He said that between Nov 6 and 12, there were 751 suspected cases reported nationwide.
It had been reported that there were more than 1,100 suspected dengue cases nationwide last month.
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