Four students in Ipoh has H1N1

: Four students from a boarding school in Ipoh have been recently diagnosed with Influenza A .

Another 97 students and a teacher from the same school have been diagnosed with ordinary viral infection, otherwise known as viral upper respiratory infection, Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye told theSun today.Lee pointed out that not everyone diagnosed with the Influenza A virus had to be admitted to the hospital.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad earlier dismissed claims that the students were suffering from a mysterious disease as viralled in social media postings. He confirmed that only four of them had H1N1. The Influenza A strain made its first appearance in 2009 and spread quickly around the world, causing what is now referred to as the N1N1 Pandemic. It is now firmly entrenched in the human population and appears seasonally as a flu virus. It is no longer considered to be a pandemic.

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