Tag: polio

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14 May 2024

Vaccines Have Worked For Over 200 Years: Dr Dzul

Health Minister Dr Dzul slams vaccine hesitancy among parents that has caused infectious disease outbreaks in Malaysia, saying vaccines have worked for over two centuries. Edward Jenner created the smallpox vaccine in 1796; smallpox was eradicated in 1980.

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10 December 2020

MP Questions Disease Control Budget Cut Amid Polio, Dengue In Sabah

Under Budget 2021, the allocation for disease control, which falls under public health, was cut by RM8 million from this year.

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17 November 2020

Malaysia Updates Child Immunisation Schedule With Hexavalent Vaccine

The hexavalent combination vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b, with doses given at age two months, three months, five months, and 18 months.

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11 November 2020

Polio Vaccination Halted In Sabah Areas With High Covid-19 Cases

About 81% of children in Sabah received two doses of the monovalent oral polio vaccine, while 96% received two doses of the bivalent oral polio vaccine.

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29 July 2020

Realistically, Covid-19 May Be Here To Stay: PKR Health Spokesman

Dr Lee Boon Chye questions if Malaysia’s all-cause mortality rose in the first six months of 2020.

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24 April 2020

Resume Polio Vaccination After MCO Ends: WHO, Unicef Tell Malaysia

World Immunisation Week runs from April 24 to 30 to raise awareness on the use of vaccines as protection from diseases.

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10 March 2020

Fourth Polio Case Hits Malaysia, Unvaccinated Foreign Sandakan Boy

Polio containment efforts have identified children with strains of the polio virus in their stool, but these don’t count as polio cases.

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28 February 2020

Healthy Child Tests Positive For Polio In Semporna

The World Health Organization (WHO) has supplied Malaysia 2.5 million oral polio vaccine doses.

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24 January 2020

United Against Profiteering From Disease — Dr Khor Swee Kheng Et Al

Everyone must charge affordable prices for health care at all times, regardless if there's an outbreak.

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23 January 2020

Activists Want Mandatory Vaccines, Say Anti-Vaxxers Spreading

They say the anti-vaccine movement in Malaysia is becoming harder to quash.