Health Alerts

A senior health official announced the malaria case-count for the first six months of 2022: 1,447 cases ‘involving 1,311 cases of zoonotic malaria and 136 of locally infected human malaria’. Companies working in mining, forestry and construction were recommended to provide suitable care for their workers, many of them foreign, as they carry a higher risk of infection. Six malaria deaths have also been recorded this year - from Terengganu, Sabah, Sarawak and Pahang; while a death attributed to ‘local human malaria’ occurred in Johor. Read more