Six times more dengue cases in Johor this year against same period in 2022


JOHOR BARU: Johor is seeing a worrying trend in dengue cases with 1,758 cumulative cases up to epidemiological week 12 (ME12) this year, against 295 in the same period last year.

State health and unity committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said of this figure, 609 were epidemic locality cases while 1,149 were non-epidemic locality cases.

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