2.5 Million Doses Of Polio Vaccine received from WHO
KUALA LUMPUR: Health Ministry has received 2.5 million doses of the monovalent oral polio vaccine type 2 from the World Health Organisation (WHO) as additional vaccine to curb the spread of polio in Sabah. Its director general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the vaccine supply supplied by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) would be […]
Don’t be influenced by anti-vaccine propaganda
KUCHING: Take note of polio fatalities if you are opposed to vaccines or before you oppose vaccination of children, said the state Health Department. To parents who oppose vaccination (also called ‘anti vax’ parents), the department has urged them to understand the importance of vaccines for their children. Its director, Dr Chin Zin Hing, advised […]
Making sure polio doesn’t spread to Sarawak
KUCHING: The Health Department Sarawak has set up ways and means to prevent polio from spreading to the state. Two more cases of poliomyelitis (polio) in Sabah have rocked the nation again after the first announcement on Jan 10. The new cases have brought the total number of children infected with the re-emerging disease in […]
Vaccine for children aged five and under
TUARAN: Children aged five and under in Sabah will be given oral polio vaccine in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus which was discovered in the state recently, said state Health and People’s Well-being Minister Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung. He said the polio vaccination drive would be carried out in stages […]
Create awareness among anti-vaccine groups
MELAKA: Groups who reject vaccine especially parents who refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated should realise their mistake with the return of polio recently as the disease is preventable by vaccination. Paediatric consultant and immunologist Datuk Dr Musa Mohd Nordin said this is because polio is a very dangerous disease with one in […]
No new polio cases reported in Sabah
KOTA KINABALU: No new cases of polio have been reported in Sabah so far, said Sabah Health and People’s Well-Being Minister Datuk Poon Ming Fung. He said a three-month-old baby boy from Tuaran who was infected with the polio virus was now hospitalised and held in an isolation room. He is now in stable condition […]
Additional polio shot for children under five in Sabah
KUALA LUMPUR: All children under five years old in Sabah will be given an additional immunisation which will be made in stages to ensure the proliferation of the polio virus can be stopped. “A methodical plan is being drawn up and the giving of the additional immunisation will be implemented as soon as possible,” said […]
Protect your children from polio
KUCHING: Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah yesterday urged all parents to take precautions to protect their children from polio. Getting immunisation and preventative injections at the public health facilities, she stressed, was necessary for children, especially the newborn infants in order to avoid threats from the polio […]
Even one polio case is an outbreak
KUALA LUMPUR: The three-month-old infant from Tuaran, Sabah who contracted polio was under-immunised with polio vaccine and was thus not protected, said consultant paediatrician and clinical immunologist Datuk Dr Musa Mohd Nordin. According to the Malaysian National Immunisation Schedule, infants are to receive the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) at ages two months, three months and […]
Re-emergence of polio
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government views seriously the re-emergence of polio in the state, the first for the country after almost 30 years, and will do its level best to ensure that it will not spread, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said. He said the re-emergence of the disease is not something that […]
