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Another influenza-like illness cluster detected at boarding school in Selangor

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SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Health Department announced that one influenza-like-illness (ILI) cluster has been detected in the state last Tuesday (June 14) involving a boarding secondary school in the Petaling district.

State Health director Datuk Dr Sha'ari Ngadiman said the cluster was detected when the district health office was notified that 110 students were down with fever, cough, flu, and sore throat and the first case was identified as being symptomatic since June 14.He said, as of Thursday , the number of students showing similar symptoms had increased to 191, giving an infection rate of 32.5 per cent.

Dr Sha'ari said the school’s hostel had also been temporarily closed for sanitisation to curb the infection. Investigations had showed that overall, 226 students had symptoms of respiratory tract infections like fever, cough, flu and sore throat, with six of them confirmed positive for Influenza A, giving an infection rate of 32.7%.

 

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