Cleaning up to fight Aedes

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ZERO AEDES: Volunteers including medical staff spruce up the surrounding areas of the Klinik Kesihatan Shah Alam Health Clinic and staff quarters

KUALA LUMPUR: A  GROUP of doctors, nurses and medical staff of  Shah Alam Health Clinic in Section 7  as well as volunteers of the Shah Alam Municipal Council and non-governmental groups attended a  gotong-royong event recently to combat the deadly dengue menace.

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New dengue strain ‘found’

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KUALA LUMPUR: MEDICAL experts believe that the discovery of a fifth dengue variant in the country is just the tip of a greater risk to human lives.

Their worry is that the discovery of the latest dengue “Den-5” virus by researchers, was a portent of things to come.

Malaysia Medical Association  president Datuk Dr N.K.S. Tharmaseelan said dengue researchers believed that the virus had been circulating in the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia for possibly thousands of years without jumping into the urban transmission cycle.

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