Malaysian Deputy Health Minister Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said that 45 new cases of A/H1N1 flu had been confirmed in Malaysia on Wednesday, increasing the total number in the country to 513.

Rosnah said that the total 513 cases in the country involved 378 imported cases and 135 locally transmitted ones, but no fatality so far.

She told the upper house of the Malaysian parliament on Wednesday that the A/H1N1 flu spread between humans and the virus would not harm the public who consume pork.

Rosnah clarified that the virus was produced through a process of mutation from the flu virus genes, which was a mixture of flu virus genes from swine, avian and human, quoting the information released by the World Health Organization in April.

She also said that A/H1N1 flu tests were carried out for 17,459 specimens from 672 pig farms in Malaysia, 191 specimens showed positive for the classical swine flu, with no specimen tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus.

Rosnah reassured the senators that the classical swine flu was not infected through human beings and only occurs among pigs, according to local media.

(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2009)