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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- No fatalities were recorded for the second consecutive day, as 310 Influenza A(H1N1) cases were discharged from hospitals as of 8am on Saturday. The number of deaths due to Influenza A(H1N1) remained at 68 while 1,476 cases are being treated at 102 hospitals nationwide including three private hospitals, said Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican in a statement on Saturday. The number include 230 patients warded and receiving treatment for Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), he said. From the 1,476 total, 316 were tested positive for H1N1 and 40 of the cases were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). "Of the 40 cases in ICU, 25 cases are in the high risk group," said Dr Mohd Ismail in the statement. Dr Mohd Ismail said according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, H1N1 pandemic was still active in 182 countries. He added that as of 8am on Saturday, the WHO had reported 1,227 new cases and 34 deaths, raising t...

KUALA LUMPUR: Seperti semalam, tiada kes kematian akibat H1N1 dilaporkan sehingga jam 9 pagi tadi tetapi 230 pesakit baru dengan gejala ILI dimasukkan ke wad. Angka korban H1N1 di Malaysia kekal 68 mangsa. Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, berkata pada masa sama 310 pesakit telah dibenar pulang, menjadikan baki seramai 1,476 pesakit sedang dirawat di 102 hospital termasuk tiga hospital swasta di seluruh negara. Katanya, daripada jumlah ini, hanya 316 pesakit atau 21 peratus yang disahkan positif H1N1. "Daripada 316 kes yang disahkan H1N1, 40 kes berada di ICU di mana empat kes adalah kemasukan baru sementara lapan kes dipindah keluar dari ICU. "Daripada 40 kes yang sedang dirawat di ICU, 25 kes (63%) mempunyai faktor risiko iaitu kanak-kanak/bayi (7), diabetes (5), penyakit kronik (5), asma/COAD (3), obesiti (3), mengandung/postnatal (1) dan kanak-kanak istimewa (1)," katanya dalam kenyataan media hari ini. - Berita Harian.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Pengundi tidak perlu bimbang untuk keluar mengundi pada pilihan raya kecil Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Permatang Pasir, Selasa ini kerana pelbagai langkah pencegahan awal penularan selesema babi atau Influenza A (H1N1) sudah diambil. Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, berkata pengundi boleh keluar beramai-ramai untuk mengundi dan tidak perlu risau dengan penularan penyakit H1N1. Beliau berkata, Kementerian Kesihatan dan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) sudah mengambil pelbagai langkah pencegahan termasuk mengedarkan topeng muka percuma. "Kita juga memberi taklimat kepada pegawai SPR mengenai langkah pencegahan penyakit itu serta bekalan topeng muka untuk diedarkan kepada pengundi. "Beberapa pegawai kesihatan pula akan memantau semua lokasi pusat mengundi di DUN Permatang Pasir bagi memastikan pengundi mematuhi arahan ditetapkan kementerian untuk membendung wabak itu," katanya. Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas mera...

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Tiada kematian akibat wabak selesema babi (H1N1) sepanjang tempoh 24 jam menjadikan jumlah korban akibat wabak itu sehingga semalam, kekal 68 orang sejak kematian pertama membabitkan seorang pelajar warga Indonesia, dilaporkan pada 21 Julai lalu. Bagaimanapun, bilangan kes jangkitan terus meningkat dengan 380 kes baru dilaporkan sehingga semalam menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan kes jangkitan di negara ini mencecah 5,876. Memberitahu pemberita selepas merasmikan kempen pencegahan H1N1 di Bukit Indera Muda, di sini, semalam, Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, sehingga kini, seramai 1,556 pesakit sedang menerima rawatan di 98 hospital seluruh negara dan 44 daripadanya ditempatkan di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU). Sementara itu, Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, berkata daripada 44 kes yang sedang dirawat di ICU, 20 kes mempunyai faktor risiko iaitu penyakit kronik (tujuh), hamil dan bersalin (empat), bayi (empat), asma (dua), obes...

BANGI: A total of 400,000 doses of A(H1N1) vaccine will be received the latest by early next year, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. “We can only order a limited amount, as every country in the world is ordering the vaccine too. We are currently finding other firms that can provide the vaccine. “We placed our order early and hope that we will receive it early,” he told reporters after launching Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s (UKM) alumni bulletin yesterday. “The World Health Organisation is not sure whether the vaccine is effective. It has to go through clinical trial. “If if the virus mutates, the vaccine will not be effective. So we have to monitor from time to time,” said Liow. He urged the public to take extra precaution during Ramadan. “The Government wish that the public remember to maintain the standard of hygiene at the Ramadan bazaars,” he said. Also at the launch was The Star’ s group chief editor Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai who delivered his alumni lectur...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 (Bernama) -- Private clinics and hospitals are ever ready to treat people suspected to be suffering from Influenza A(H1N1) and will only turn away such patients if they lack adequate medical facilities, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) said Friday. MMA president Dr David Quek Kwang Leng said he did not believe that private clinics or hospitals would turn away suspected Influenza A(H1N1) patients for any other reason. He made this clarification to Bernama when commenting on a statement by Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai yesterday that some private clinics and hospitals were reluctant to treat such patients and had referred them to government clinics or hospitals instead. Dr Quek said H1N1 patients who sought treatment in private clinics or hospitals would have been referred to government hospitals later for a number of reasons. "The private clinics or hospitals may not have adequate facilities, they may not be skilled in treating such cases or...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 (Bernama) -- Ramadan bazaar traders and patrons are advised to wear masks to check the spread of the Influenza A(H1N1). Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail said they must take the initiative to reduce the risk of spreading the disease because the bazaars normally attracted huge crowds. He said the Kuala Lumpur City Hall had issued 7,600 trading licences for the ramadan bazaars this year compared with 890 last year. He advised traders with flu-like symptoms to impose self-quarantine and stay home to avoid spreading the disease to others. "We can refund their money for the licences (if they cannot trade). There's not need to worry about losing money. They should value their health," he told Bernama on Friday. The fees for the trading licences vary according to location, with the fee to operate for 21 days in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman costing RM389. -- BERNAMA

KUCHING, Aug 21 (Bernama) -- Sarawak will get its own test laboratory by the middle of next month to enable the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) to conduct tests for Influenza A(H1N1). Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan said Friday the lab would speed up the Influenza A(H1N1) tests without having to send the samples to the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in Kuala Lumpur or the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sabah. "Four medical staff are undergoing training (to conduct tests) while some of the equipment are here and a few more are to be bought. We think that by mid-September we should be able to test our own samples," he told reporters at the state Health Department here. Previously, swab specimens from suspected Influenza A(H1N1) patients were sent to the IMR and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where results are usually known in 24 hours but because of the backlog of cases, results take much longer. Dr Chan, who is also the state Disaster Relief Committee chairman,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 (Bernama) -- The Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (Liam) said Friday that all the 16 life insurance companies under its association will pay claims arising from deaths and hospitalisation due to influenza A (H1N1). "Even though a majority of the medical policies carry exclusion on communicable diseases requiring quarantine by law, life insurers are responding to an immediate need of the nation in light of the increasing number of people who have been infected," it said in a statement. It said, however, that insurers would continue to monitor the situation and would inform policy holders of any change in decision. The General Insurance Association of Malaysia (Piam) said the health coverage and policies varied among insurance companies. "It depends on the companies whether to include Influenza A(H1N1) in their policy. We cannot force them to change their policies," Piam technical advisor Tan Eng Leong told Bernama. According to the Piam w...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- People with symptoms of flu have been advised to stay away from public places as the Health Ministry reported 257 new cases of Influenza A(H1N1) over the 24 hours up to 8am on Wenesday. Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said people with symptoms of flu should avoid going to public places such as shopping malls and not use public transportation. "The Health Ministry has found that many people suffering from Influenza A(H1N1) were not cooperating well enough to contain the spread of the disease," he said in a statement when disclosing the latest figures on the pandemic. He said in the statement that no deaths were reported in the 24 hours up to 8am on Wenesday. As of 8am yesterday, the death toll from the disease was 67. Of the 257 new cases reported, 36 were under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of hospitals, and 21 of these cases had been classified as being in the risk category, with the patients suffering...

KUALA LUMPUR 19 Ogos — Seramai 257 pesakit disahkan positif Influenza A (H1N1) dan tiada kematian akibat jangktan wabak itu dilapor hari ini, kata Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican. Beliau berkata daripada 257 kes baru itu, 36 kes di rawat di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU) dengan 21 kes mempunyai faktor risiko seperti diabetes, penyakit kronik, asma, hamil dan bersalin, obesiti, kanak-kanak istimewa dan bayi. “Kementerian Kesihatan mendapati masih ramai pesakit yang mengalami jangkitan Influenza A (H1N1) yang tidak memberi kerjasama yang baik dalam mengawal penularan wabak ini,” katanya dalam kenyataan di sini hari ini. Dr Mohd Ismail turut meminta mereka yang mempunyai simptom penyakit itu supaya lebih bertanggungjawab dengan tidak mengunjungi tempat awam seperti pusat membeli belah dan mengelak daripada menaiki kenderaan awam. “Mereka yang mempunyai simptom influenza walaupun ringan, masih boleh disebar kepada orang lain apabila mereka ini batuk atau bersin. O...

KUALA LUMPUR: Based on its observations of influenza A (H1N1)-related deaths in the country, the Health Ministry notes that the virus is targeting the respiratory system. "Most of those who died from H1N1 suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome resulting from severe fulminant pneumonia," Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said on NSTLive at Balai Berita yesterday. He said as the H1N1-related pneumonia was a viral pneumonia, pneumoccoccal vaccine would not be effective. "There are many types of pneumonia, including viral and bacterial pneumonias. Pneumococcal pneumonia is caused by the pneumoccocus bacteria and normally, most patients with such a pneumonia will respond effectively to antibiotics. "It will help those who are vulnerable, including the very young and the very old. "However, it is not effective against H1N1-related pneumonia as it is a viral pneumonia." Dr Ismail also said that pregnant mothers...

TENGKU Puan Pahang ceria bersama putera dan puteri baginda ketika meninggalkan Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), di Kuantan, semalam. KUANTAN: "Tempoh 12 hari menjalani rawatan di wad selepas disahkan dijangkiti Influenza A (H1N1) adalah saat paling getir dalam hidup saya apatah lagi mengenangkan nasib lima anakanda yang turut menempuh saat mencemaskan ini," kata Tengku Puan Pahang, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah Sultan Iskandar. Tunku Azizah Aminah bersyukur selepas doktor mengesahkan baginda dan lima anakandanya bebas jangkitan H1N1 sebelum dibenarkan keluar dari wad Diraja Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), kira-kira jam 11.45 pagi, semalam. Baginda juga bersyukur melihat keadaan lima anaknya Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah, 14, Tengku Muhammad Iskandar Ri'ayatuddin Shah, 12, pasangan kembar Tengku Ahmad Ismail Mu'adzam Shah dan Tengku Puteri Afzan Aminah Hafidzatullah, 9, dan Tengku Puteri Jihan Kha...

Oleh Wan Hazmir Bakar KUALA LUMPUR: Tiada kes kematian berkaitan Influenza A (H1N1) dilaporkan sehingga jam pagi tadi dan angka korban keseluruhan kekal pada 67 mangsa. Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, berkata sejumlah 1468 penghidap penyakit seperti influenza (ILI) sedang dirawat di 86 buah hospital termasuk enam hospital swasta di seluruh negara. Katanya, dari jumlah itu, 257 telah disahkan positif H1N1 manakalal seramai 134 pesakit dibenarkan keluar hospital. "Daripada 257 kes yang disahkan H1N1, 36 kes berada di unit rawatan rapi (ICU) di mana 7 kes adalah kemasukan baru sementara empat kes dipindah keluar dari ICU. "Daripada 36 kes yang sedang dirawat di ICU, 21 kes (58%) mempunyai faktor risiko iaitu diabetes (5), penyakit kronik (4), asma (3), hamil dan bersalin (3), obesiti (2), kanak-kanak istimewa (2) dan kanak - kanak di bawah usia setahun (2)," katanya dalam kenyataan media hari ini....

ANGGARAN oleh Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) bahawa lima juta atau 20 peratus rakyat negara ini berisiko dijangkiti virus selesema babi atau influenza A (H1N1) jika orang ramai tidak mengambil serius langkah pencegahan bagi menghalang penularan virus itu perlu diberi perhatian serius oleh semua rakyat Malaysia. Jumlah anggaran ini amatlah besar sekali kerana jika tiada tindakan berkesan dan bersepadu serta kerjasama dan sokongan kuat di kalangan rakyat pastinya ia boleh memudaratkan produktiviti dan juga menjejaskan sektor ekonomi negara. Gesaan oleh orang ramai yang mengesyorkan agar menyenaraikan statistik H1N1 merupakan satu tindakan yang boleh menyedarkan orang ramai tentang tahap keseriusan wabak ini. Pastinya orang ramai yang berada di kawasan tertentu yang mempunyai statistik pengidap H1N1 yang tinggi akan mengambil tindakan yang lebih serius bagi mengelak risiko dijangkiti H1N1. Pengalaman penulis sendiri ketika membentangkan kertas kerja di Asian Finance Association (A...

KOTA BHARU 18 Ogos - Semua pegawai dan anggota polis Kelantan mula menerima suntikan vaksin untuk mencegah jangkitan wabak selesema babi atau influenza A (H1N1) daripada terus menular ke negeri ini. Suntikan vaksin itu diberikan kepada anggota dan pegawai polis yang sering berdepan dengan orang ramai. Sehingga hari ini, belum terdapat pegawai atau anggota polis yang dijangkiti wabak itu di negeri ini berikutan langkah awal yang diambil oleh polis kontinjen negeri. Ketua Polis Kelantan, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi berkata, sebagai permulaan, semua anggota dan pegawai di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Kelantan akan menerima suntikan vaksin berkenaan. "Kita akan perluaskan suntikan vaksin H1N1 ke seluruh Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) terutama mereka yang bertugas di luar termasuk mereka yang menjalankan tugas rondaan," katanya. Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita pada Majlis Pelancaran Buku Citarasa Persatuan Keluarga Polis (Perkep) di IPK Kelantan di sini hari ini. ...

Oleh S Anand Kumar anand@bharian.com.my Musim tengkujuh dijangka percepat wabak KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia mungkin menghadapi gelombang kedua virus Influenza A (H1N1) pada Oktober, November dan Disember ini kerana musim tengkujuh dijangka mempercepatkan penularan wabak itu. Berikutan itu, Kementerian Kesihatan mengambil langkah berjaga-jaga termasuk mengarahkan kumpulan pakar kesihatan kementerian melakukan pemantauan rapi dari semasa ke semasa. Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, berkata pihaknya bimbang virus berkenaan akan merebak dengan serius pada musim tengkujuh kerana hujan berterusan memudahkan orang ramai, terutama kanak-kanak mendapat selesema. "Kita khuatir komplikasi (selesema) itu kemudian akan bercampur dengan virus H1N1. Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) beberapa hari lalu juga sudah mengingatkan semua negara supaya mengambil langkah sewajarnya bagi menghadapi gelombang kedua H1N1. "Kita memantau keadaan H1N1 secara s...

By DERRICK VINESH BUKIT MERTAJAM: The Government will control the retail price of surgical masks sold at exorbitant rates while the Health Ministry vows stricter enforcement against people who fail to wear masks if they have flu-like illnesses. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Government would make the single-ply surgical mask as a price-controlled item indefinitely during the current Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. He said the item only costs 30 sen each but some people were selling it for RM5 per piece because of the pandemic. “Selling surgical masks at exorbitant prices during a pandemic is like mencekik darah (squeezing blood from customers),” he said. “Under the Price Control Act 1946, we can include face mask as a price-controlled item in the context of a health emergency,” he told newsmen at the Permatang Pasir by-election nomination centre here yesterday. Muhyiddin said the ruling would be imposed on producers, distributors and retailers of...

By YUEN MEIKENG KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry wants to hire more private doctors to work in government hospitals to supplement the 50% shortage of medical officers and specialists in the country. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said the ministry would ensure private doctors were given deserving salaries and promised that their admission into public hospitals would take as fast as two weeks. “The private doctors can work based on contract or sessions. They can work two weeks in a private hospital and spend the rest of the month in a government hospital. It would be like putting one leg in the public hospital and the other in a private hospital,” he said. Dr Ismail was speaking to the press after delivering his keynote address on “Building A Safety Culture Through Accountability” at the 8th Ministry of Health Malaysia – Academy of Medicine of Malaysia Scientific Meeting 2009 at the Institute for Health Management here yesterday. He said the ministry...

KUALA LUMPUR: Tiga lagi kematian berkaitan Influenza A (H1N1) dilaporkan sehingga jam 9 pagi tadi, menjadikan keseluruhan 67 kes kematian. Mangsa terbaru itu ialah seorang wanita berumur 33 tahun, seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia 10 tahun dan seorang warga emas berumur 71 tahun. Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, berkata sejumlah 276 pesakit H1N1 sedang dirawat di wad manakala 36 pesakit lagi di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU) di seluruh negara. Katanya, 156 pesakit sudah dibenar pulang dari wad dengan 129 dibekalkan antiviral. "Daripada 36 kes yang sedang dirawat di ICU, 21 kes mempunyai faktor risiko iaitu DM (1), penyakit kronik (7), kegagalan buah pinggang (3), asma (2), obesiti (1), kecacatan otak (2), hamil dan bersalin (2) dan kanak-kanak di bawah setahun (3)," katanya dalam satu kenyataan media hari ini. - Berita Harian.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- Doctors in the public and private sectors must give immediate treatment to high-risk influenza A(H1N1) patients as most of them apparently died as a result of late treatment, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. He said anti-viral medicines had to be administered to high-risk patients including those with heart ailments, diabetes and asthma and having fever for more than two days. "If you feel that you have influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and you have other sickness, we advise you to go for an anti-viral treatment. "Do not wait for the testing of H1N1 results," he told reporters after launching the Asia Healthcare 2009 Conference here Monday. Influenza A (H1N1) or swine flu claimed two more casualties - a seven-year-old baby boy and a 74-year-old woman - bringing the death toll to 64. On the situation, Liow said the country was in a state of alarm and not in the health emergency situation and asked the public not to be misle...

ALOR SETAR: Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak, mendesak Kementerian Kesihatan mengumumkan darurat kesihatan dalam tempoh terdekat berikutan penularan wabak Influeza A (H1N1) yang disifatkan serius dan memerlukan langkah drastik bagi menyelamatkan nyawa rakyat. Azizan berkata, beliau difahamkan Malaysia adalah negara keempat mencatat angka kematian dan jangkitan tertinggi H1N1 dan keadaan ini sekali gus mencetuskan kebimbangan di kalangan masyarakat. Beliau berkata, kerajaan negeri bersedia untuk membatalkan semua program dan keraian yang membabitkan majlis sosial, termasuk sambutan hari kemerdekaan jika keadaan dilaporkan semakin meruncing. "Saya hanya menunggu keputusan Kerajaan Pusat, jika kerajaan memutuskan darurat kesihatan, kerajaan negeri sedia membatalkan semua keraian yang membabitkan majlis sosial termasuk sambutan hari kemerdekaan. "Perkara ini perlu dipandang serius kerana kematian akibat penyakit terbabit semakin ti...

Oleh LIAU PEI WEN liau.peiwen@utusan.com.my KUALA LUMPUR 16 Ogos – Darurat kesihatan tidak boleh diisytihar sewenang-wenangnya walaupun Pertubuhan Kesihatan Dunia (WHO) menganggarkan lima juta atau 20 peratus rakyat negara ini dijangkiti virus selesema babi atau Influenza A (H1N1). Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, pihaknya mengakui situasi wabak itu di negara ini adalah tenat, tetapi untuk mengisytihar negara sebagai darurat ia perlu mengambil kira banyak faktor dan kriteria lain. Katanya, ia termasuk melibatkan pelbagai pihak lain seperti orang awam, kementerian dan Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN). “Ini tidak bermakna kerajaan tidak serius dalam menangani penularan H1N1, malah Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin ialah Pengerusi kepada Jawatankuasa Kebangsaan Antara Kementerian Untuk Menangani Wabak H1N1,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia di sini hari ini. Malaysia hari ini mencatatkan tiga lagi kematian akibat virus H1N1 menjadikan jumlah kematian men...

GEORGE TOWN: Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today that there were 384 new cases reported, and 4,225 the total reported cases. He also said that two more people had died due to the influenza A (H1N1), and the death toll was now 64. - NST.

BUKIT MERTAJAM 17 Ogos - Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, sebanyak dua kematian akibat wabak selesema babi atau influenza A (H1N1) dilaporkan di negara ini hari ini menjadikan jumlah kes kematian meningkatkan kepada 64 kes. Katanya, sebanyak 33 pesakit masih dirawat di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU) di hospital seluruh negara manakala 284 pesakit dirawat di wad biasa. "Sehingga hari ini, jumlah kes terkumpul akibat jangkitan H1N1 di Malaysia adalah 4,225 kes," katanya pada sidang akhbar di luar pusat penamaan calon bagi pilihan raya kecil Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN), Permatang Pasir di Institut Kemahiran Belia Negara (IKBN), di sini. - Utusan.

"Mencegah lebih baik dari mengubat". Inilah yang terbaik untuk mengekang wabak H1N1 dari terus merebak. Kita (rakyat) harus bertindak sekarang kerana lebih baik lewat dari tidak bertindak langsung...Fikirkanlah.

KUALA LUMPUR: A seminar to educate the public about influenza A (H1N1) will be held on Wednesday at Wisma MCA here. It would be attended by the Health Minister and three doctors from the ministry. Members of the public would be able to ask questions regarding the nationwide epidemic and engage in dialogue with the minister and the doctors, said Wanita MCA chief Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun. She added that it would be the first of a series to be held across the country and video recordings of the events would be posted on the MCA website. - The Star.

Oleh ABDUL MUIN SAPIDIN muin.sapidin@utusan.com.my Kebanyakan ibu bapa memakai penutup mulut dan hidung sebagai langkah pencegahan daripada dijangkiti selesema babi atau influenza A (H1N1) ketika menghadiri majlis Konvokesyen Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) di Samarahan, Sarawak, semalam. – MINGGUAN / AMIR HAFIZ ABD BUKIT MERTAJAM 15 Ogos - Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) menganggarkan lima juta atau 20 peratus rakyat negara ini berisiko dijangkiti virus influenza A (H1N1) jika orang ramai tidak mengambil serius langkah pencegahan bagi menghalang penularan virus itu. Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, statistik itu berdasarkan kajian terperinci WHO mengenai impak penularan luar biasa H1N1 terhadap sesebuah negara jika ancaman virus tersebut tidak ditangani secara berkesan dan menyeluruh. ''Kajian itu menyebut bahawa jika penularan virus H1N1 di sesebuah negara tidak berjaya ditangani dengan berkesan, 20 peratus penduduknya akan terdedah dengan ja...

BY LOH FOON FONG KUALA LUMPUR : Three more deaths have been reported from the influenza A(H1N1) virus, bringing the country's overall death toll to 62. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said of the three new deaths, there were delays in administering the patients with viral treatment. "The ministry will now probe the reasons behind the delay," he said, adding that there were 283 new cases of infection, bringing the tally up to 3,857 cases. Thirty-three patients remained in intensive care unit while 213 were hospitalised in normal ward. Liow also warned those with flu that they could be fined up to RM10,000 or jailed up to two years if they did not isolate themselves and spread the disease to others. - The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR 16 Ogos - Tiga lagi kematian dicatatkan akibat influenza A(H1N1) membabitkan dua kanak-kanak lelaki berumur 6 dan 3 tahun serta lelaki berumur 50 tahun, menjadikan jumlah kematian 62 orang. Sebanyak 283 kes baru dilaporkan menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan setakat ini sebanyak 3,857 kes, kata Menteri Kesihatan Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. - Utusan.