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Friday, August 28, 2009

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PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry reports that 391 people have been admitted to hospitals for treatment of influenza-like illness (ILI).

However, no deaths have been reported as of 9am on Friday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican in a statement.

He said out of 1,509 patients with ILI in 103 hospitals nationwide, 218 or 14% were confirmed to have the Influenza A(H1N1) virus.

From this, 48 cases were in intensive care for having high-risk factors such as chronic diseases, obesity, heart disease, asthma.

A total of 293 patients were discharged.

Source: TheStar

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