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Sat, 05/23/2009 - 22:49
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LEPTOSPIROSIS: SITUATION AT JURU DETENTION DEPOT UNDER CONTROL

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (Bernama) -- The Health Ministry Friday announced that
the Leptospirosis outbreak at the Juru Immigration Detention Depot, Bukit
Mertajam in northern Penang state was under control.

Director-general of Health Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said there was no new case
reported.

"As at 8am Friday, the number of cases under hospital treatment remained at
nine where eight of them were at Bukit Mertajam Hospital (one warded at the
intensive-care unit and seven at the isolation ward) and one at Seberang Jaya
Hospital's ICU," he said in a statement here.

He said all the cases were in stable condition.
-- BERNAMA


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