Cop's wife becomes first dengue fatality in Penang

NST: GEORGE TOWN: A policeman’s wife has become the first dengue fatality in Penang this year.
State Health Committee chairman P.K. Subbaiyah said the victim, a 40-year old housewife, died at the Penang Hospital late last month.
Following the death, the authorities have beefed up cleanliness at a police barrack where the victim stayed and its surrounding neighbourhood.
Subbaiyah said he had a meeting with the state Health Department and the police chief of the affected area and told them to clean up the place.
Declining to state where it was, Subbaiyah said the area had been identified as an Aedes breeding ground for quite some time.
"They have cleaned up the whole area and it is no longer an outbreak area now," he said yesterday.
He said several dengue hot spots had been identified, namely Taman Lip Sin, Cangkat Minden and Sungai Ara on the island and Taman Pelangi on mainland Prai.