Weekly HFMD cases in Selangor now alarming but no deaths recorded, says state health director
SHAH ALAM, April 29 — The number of weekly cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in Selangor has now exceeded the warning level, said Selangor Health director Datuk Dr Sha’ari Ngadiman.
“At the same time, 112 HFMD clusters have been reported involving 547 cases with 95 per cent of them involving clusters in nurseries, kindergartens and day-care centres but no deaths were reported,” he said in a statement today. “Besides that, the parties in charge must do screening at the entrance of a place, practise personal hygiene including washing hands when handling children, ensure disposable diapers are thrown into covered bins and to report an HFMD cluster to the nearby district health office,” he added.
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