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Figure 21 Figure 22
Distribution of PUI for MERS-CoV Age Distribution of PUI for
Notification, 2017 MERS-CoV, 2017

Source: Disease Surveillance Sector, Disease Source: Disease Surveillance Sector, Disease
Control Division, MoH Control Division, MoH

• Risk Assessment for Acute Public Health Event
In 2017, two (2) Rapid Risk Assessment Reports were prepared following avian influenza (H5N1)
outbreak among poultry in Kelantan (February 2017) and increasing trend of H7N9 human cases
reported from Republic of China (March 2017).

• Event Based Surveillances (EBS)
For 2017, a total of 712 news was recorded by rumour surveillance system. Among this news, 6.5 per
cent news coded as green and 93.5 per cent news coded as yellow. There was no news coded as red
(Figure 23). An event is screened using the Event Screening Risk Assessment (ESRA) tool and then
coded as red (need to be verified within 72 hours of receiving it), yellow (circulated/shared with the
intention to increase alertness) or green (recorded without the need to be circulated).

Figure 23
Distribution of News Screened According to Colour Coding, by Epid Week, 2017

70
60
Number of News 40 Red
50

30
Yellow
20
10 Green
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51
Epid Week

Source: Disease Surveillance Sector, Disease Control Division, MoH

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