Bukit Mertajam: A total of 36.611 cases of dengue fever were recorded in the whole country for the period January to yesterday compared to 27.177 cases in the same period last year.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya, said it involved 119 deaths compared to 94 deaths for the previous year.
However, he said, showing a decline in dengue cases when 1,600 cases were recorded in the past two months in March and April compared with 3,500 cases in the same period last year.
"Selangor state still remains the highest recorded dengue cases followed by Perak, Johor and Penang," he said on the program 'Let Down with Aedes' with visits from house to house patients who had suffered from dengue in Taman Guar Perahu Indah, near here, today.
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