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Pathogenic microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi are the causes of infectious diseases.
These diseases can spread to humans through a number of ways, e.g. person to person through direct touch, water, food or airborne particles, and through insects such as mosquitoes.
The National Immunisation Programme (NIP) is a government initiative to curb the spread of infectious diseases.
The Health Ministry introduced the NIP in the 1950s by providing free vaccination services to children in Malaysia.
Currently, the programme targets 12 vaccine-preventable diseases, i.e. tuberculosis, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio,
Haemophilus influenzae type b, measles, mumps, rubella, Japanese encephalitis (only in Sarawak), and cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV).
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PETALING JAYA: Flood victims must take care to adhere to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and to the new norm, says the Health Ministry.
In a statement Sunday (Dec 20), Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah urged flood victims to take care of their health.
“In a situation where a country is hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, congested places such as temporary shelters can increase the risk of disease transmission.
“As such, adherence to the SOPs and new norm practices by flood victims in temporary shelters must be given its due attention by the relevant agencies, ” he said on Sunday (Dec 20).
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PETALING JAYA: Five new Covid-19 clusters were identified on Saturday (Dec 19) while three clusters have ended, says the Health Ministry.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that there are currently 199 active clusters in the country, with 41 clusters reporting new cases on Saturday.
“The clusters with the highest recorded increases are the Jalan Stadium construction site cluster (167 cases), Jalan Harapan prison cluster (96 cases) and Tembok cluster (80 cases), ” he said in a statement Saturday (Dec 19).
The Jalan Zuhrah construction site cluster involves the Petaling district in Selangor, and was detected through a workplace screening at a construction site.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Five new Covid-19 clusters have been detected today by the Health Ministry including three workplace clusters in Selangor, Sabah, Johor and Kelantan.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in Selangor it involved the Jalan Zuhrah Construction Site Cluster detected in Petaling with cases for this cluster testing positive since Dec 14 in a workplace screening.
“To date, 450 individuals have been screened with 49 cases detecting positive for Covid-19,” he said in a statement today.
He said in Sabah, two new clusters were detected, namely the Keris Residence Cluster involving workplaces in Kota Kinabalu and Tuaran with the index cases being reported positive on Dec 12 via screening of symptomatic individuals.