The Selangor Health Department has confirmed that a pupil of SK Section 9 in Shah Alam has been infected with the H1N1 virus as widely reported in social websites yesterday.

The department in a statement said the Year Two pupil, who had fever, cough and flu last Saturday, was warded at a private hospital last Sunday. Test results showed he was infected with virus.

The statement said further that the pupil’s three-year-old sibling had also been infected, but after receiving treatment the two were recovering.

Checks on four other family members found they were free of the H1N1 virus, the statement added. The close friends of the siblings were also found not to have been infected.

The source of the infection is still under investigation and the district health department has been directed to keep up checks on the siblings’ family members as well as other pupils at the school.

Members of the public with any queries can contact the Infectious Diseases Unit of the department at 03-5123 7333 or email [email protected] .

- Bernama