Health Ministry: Thirty-two typhoid cases reported


PETALING JAYA: Thirty-two typhoid fever cases have been reported in the last two months, the Health Ministry confirmed.

In a statement on Monday, ministry director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the Kuala Lumpur Health Department had recorded seven cases of typhoid fever in the first week of August.

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