KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin yesterday confirmed that eight cases of Influenza A(H1N1) were reported in the country between Nov 14 and 20, and urged the public to take preventive measures.
H1N1 was now categorised as endemic, she said, meaning the infection was maintained in the population without the need for external inputs. "No deaths were reported during that period, but the public should take preventive measures," she said after opening a trade exhibition in conjunction with the 9th Asian Congress on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, here.
Apart from preventive measures, the public should get the trivalent influenza vaccine at any private hospital, she advised.
Government hospitals only provided the vaccine to those in the high-risk groups, she added. -- Bernama
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