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SUNGAI PETANI: The Health Ministry (MoH) is still awaiting the police investigation report regarding the recent death of a 10-year-old girl, allegedly due to negligence, at a government hospital in Klang.

The Department of Health (DoH) has reported a clustering of malaria cases in Barangay Irawan, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.

Monsoon can give rise to a number of health issues. Here are 5 diseases that spread easily during the rainy season.

Researchers estimate that malaria-causing parasites have been mutating for 30 million years making the disease especially difficult to target.

Around 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine have been assigned to 12 countries after they proved effective in a pilot study started in 2019.

The latest public health scare to make headlines is malaria, which the powers that be say is spreading in Florida and Texas by infected mosquitoes. With this news comes increased demand for mosquito remediation protocols, including natural remedies. There are well-known mosquito repellant chemicals like DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide), allethrin, N,N-diethyl mandelic acid amide, and dimethyl phthalate […]

While monsoon brings relief from the summer heat, it also increases the risk of several diseases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a statewide malaria alert for Florida as cases of the mosquito-borne disease are being detected in the Sunshine State. According to the Daily Mail, the alert followed two residents of Florida’s Sarasota County contracting malaria. Local health authorities said the two individuals were diagnosed between […]

Malaria is spreading locally in the United States for the first time since 2003, with seven cases reported in Florida and Texas. The diseases is caused by a parasite that infects the Anopheles mosquito, which is found throughout most of the continental U.S., including Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Malaria can be serious and causes flulike symptoms. There is no vaccine, but there are antimalarial medications for people traveling to areas where the disease is common.

With monsoon fury raging across north India, doctors in the national capital region say there has been a surge in vector and water-borne diseases like diarrhoea, dengue, and malaria due to water contamination and widespread flooding. According to doctors, most of the patients have been reporting stomach pain, fever, typhoid, jaundice, and body aches and the OPD numbers have doubled as compared to regular days before monsoon. , Health News, Times Now