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Asia Pacific News
Malaysia confirms first H1N1 flu case
Posted: 15 May 2009 1432 hrs
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia confirmed on Friday its first case of H1N1 flu, the country's top health official said.
"I can confirm (that it) is the first case in Malaysia," Health Director General Ismail Merican told AFP. His confirmation followed a statement from the health ministry giving details of the country's first case.
"The patient is a 21-year-old male student who had just returned from the United States on May 13, 2009 and who was down with fever, sore throat and body aches on May 14," it said.
It said the patient went into the Sungai Buloh quarantine facility in central Selangor state on the same evening and is now in a stable condition...
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