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Adakah Malaysia sedang dilanda wabak malaria?




Sudah seminggu sepupu saya dari Kg Gadong, Rembau sedang dirawat di Unit Rawatan Kritikal Hospital Seremban akibat demam malaria. Apakah negara kita sedang dilanda wabak malaria? Apakah langkah-langkah pencegahan yang perlu diambil baik dari sudut perubatan apatah lagi dari sudut pendekatan Islam? Dalam akhbar mengesahkan wabak malaria sedang melanda satu perkampungan Orang Asli.

72 people down with malaria
NST 26 May 2013 
           
A MALARIAL outbreak has  infected 72 people, including 60 Orang Asli from Kampung Sungai Rual, in Jeli since the first case involving a logging worker was detected on May 1, state Health Department deputy director Dr Wan Mansor Wan Hamzah said.
Following the discovery, health authorities launched an operation to contain the outbreak by collecting blood samples of about 800 people, including 560 Orang Asli, in several villages, Orang Asli settlements and kongsi at logging sites.

He said the department had distributed 557 medicated nets for the villagers to sleep in to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.

"The mosquitoes will die when they hit the net. Our officers have practically camped at the affected areas to detect those who might be down with fever as well as to conduct anti-malaria ceramah."

He added that fogging and chemical sprays had also been carried out in order to destroy adult mosquitoes in their breeding grounds, as part of efforts to contain the outbreak.


A deadly malaria strand tightens its grip in Malaysia
7 March 2013

Scientists in Malaysia have reported an increase in malaria cases in Borneo caused by the Plasmodium knowlesi parasite, threatening the region's hopes for malaria elimination.

Research has indicated that while cases of the more common malaria strands, such as Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, have seen a huge decline, P. knowlesi cases have increased dramatically since the early 2000s.

"We suspect that deforestation may have something to do with it as most of the cases were recorded in rural areas," he says. "Our studies showed that more than 70 per cent of P. knowlesi patients were male and from the 25-45 age group. Many of these were farmers or plantation workers, which are moving further into the macaques territory increasing chances of contracting [the disease]."

The WHO has recommended that each country affected should formulate a comprehensive strategy to control the disease.

"Rapid diagnosis, appropriate and timely treatment, personal protection, surveillance and health information targeted at risk populations and health staff, as well as operational research, are vital for successful elimination," says Timothy O' Leary, public information officer at the WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office.


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