By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 On December 8, 2019, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH) announced that a case of polio (circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 -cVDPV1) was confirmed in Sabah....

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Malaysia health officials are reporting a confirmed polio case in a three-month-old boy from Tuaran, Sabah who had a fever followed by a weak limb and was admitted to the intensive...

A new study from researchers at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) on the primary mosquito vector of Plasmodium knowlesi, or monkey malaria will publish in the next issue of PLOS One. The research...

In a follow-up to reports of locally acquired, or autochthonous transmission Zika virus infection in Malaysia, the Ministry of Health reported Friday of the seventh case in a 60-year-old woman. The...

Just days after reporting a travel-associated Zika virus case in a woman who contracted the virus while in Singapore, Malaysian Health Minister, Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Dr. Subramaniam Sathasivam...

Malaysia health officials have reported the third diphtheria fatality in the country this year in a child from Menggatal town, Sabah. This follows two recent deaths in children from Kedah and Malacca,...

A steep rise in human cases of P. knowlesi malaria in Malaysia is likely to be linked to deforestation and associated environmental changes, according to new research published in Emerging Infectious Diseases....