Alarming rise in dengue cases this year


A Health Department officer showing a bottle of water containing mosquito larvae.

DENGUE cases in the southwest district of Penang have skyrocketed by 231% this year.

There were 427 cases reported from January to June as compared to 129 cases in the same time period last year.

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