KUALA LUMPUR: While there is no upward trend of influenza cases in Malaysia, data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that flu cases spiked in countries in the Western Pacific region at the beginning of 2025.
In the first epidemiology week this year, the positive rate for tested influenza samples was 25.45%, followed by 26.2% in the following week, which is an increase of 2.97%.
