Dengue claims grandma while grandsons end up in hospital


KUANTAN: When it rains, it pours. For a family in the village of Panji Alam, the monsoon rain brought along Aedes mosquitoes.

Housewife Ramlah Mohammad, 49, said when her mother-in-law Ramlah Jusoh, 73, fell sick early last month, she didn’t think it was dengue as none of her neighbours had contracted it.

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