Communicable Disease

点击阅读中文版.

点击阅读中文版

点击阅读中文版

点击阅读中文版

Food poisoning or acute gastroenteritis is a food-borne illness caused by consumption of contaminated food. While the symptoms vary depending on type of microorganisms causing the illness, most cases would involve nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal cramps and occasionally fever.[1] Adults who are otherwise healthy will experience mild, self-limiting symptoms (recovers in a few hours to days). In fact, antibiotic treatment is not warranted in most cases as long as the…

  On 15th of October 2018, a 14-month-old child died of diphtheria in Johor Bahru. According to a statement issued by the Director General of Health, Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the child was never vaccinated as her parents were against vaccination. The child developed fever and sore throat on the 4th of October and it took a week for her mother to seek medical treatment at a private clinic.…

What is Japanese Encephalitis? Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is a virus-disease that is transmitted by mosquitos. It lives in humans, pigs and birds. When a mosquito bites an infected animal, it can then transmit the disease by biting someone else. An infected person is unable to infect another person through mosquito bites. This virus then infects the brain causing inflammation of the brain. Approximately 1 in 4 cases of JE is…

This article is a follow-up to the article on Diphtheria and why is it deadly. Vaccination against diphtheria is usually combined with vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus under the name of DTaP or TDaP. Recently, DTaP or TDaP is further combined in with the polio vaccine known as DTaP-IPV or TDaP-IPV. It is a single injection that is recommended to be administered at 1, 2, 5 and 18…

Recently, there was a very unfortunate case of a girl who passed away in Miri Hospital, Sarawak due to diphtheria at the age of two. This raised much concern over this archaic disease that, of late, is making a comeback. This is due to the drop in vaccination rates because parents are worried about various negative health impacts of vaccines, and the girl who passed away, was unvaccinated.   Corynebacterium…

“You’ve got red eyes? Don’t come near me or it will “jump” to me!” Let’s be honest, you’ve probably heard that before. I’m going to say that’s pure hoax, if not folklore my parents used to tell me. Mind you, it would be really scary if it is that contagious!   What is conjunctivitis? Conjunctivitis commonly known as the ‘red eyes’ or ‘pink eyes’ is a form of inflammation affecting…