Malaysia confirmed its first case of swine flu yesterday, Health Ministry Director General Ismail Merican said.
“I can confirm [that it] is the first case in Malaysia,” he said.
“The patient is a 21-year-old male student who had just returned from the United States on May 13, 2009 and who was down with fever, sore throat and body aches on May 14,” the health ministry said.
“This is the first A(H1N1) flu case found in Malaysia,” the ministry said.
It said the man went into the Sungai Buloh quarantine facility in Selangor state on the same evening and is now in a stable condition.
It urged all passengers who traveled on the Malaysian airlines flight MH091 from Newark, New Jersey, to Kuala Lumpur that landed at 7.15am on Wednesday to contact the ministry for further instructions.
The ministry said it had so far received 11 flu-like cases for investigation with all the patients warded and isolated for monitoring.
“All these cases showed symptoms of flu and had a history of visiting countries infected with the outbreak [but] all their clinical samples had been sent to institute for medical research for lab tests and tested negative,” it said.
Meanwhile, the WHO said the number of confirmed swine flu cases has reached 7,520, rising more than 1,000 in 24 hours. Sixty-five people have died from the virus.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), however, said the number of global cases had topped 7,700 worldwide.
The US reported 4,298 cases, including probable cases, the ECDC said.
In Panama the number of cases rose to 39. Colombia had 10, Brazil and Costa Rica each had eight cases, El Salvador had four, while Cuba had three cases, it said.
New Zealand raised the number of reported cases to nine.
In Europe there were 12 new confirmed cases compared to Thursday, raising the number of confirmed cases to 234.
The Burmese junta has said that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son said he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing. In an interview in Tokyo earlier this week, Kim Aris said he had not heard from his mother in years and believes she is being held incommunicado in the capital, Naypyidaw. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was detained after a 2021 military coup that ousted her elected civilian government and sparked a civil war. She is serving a
Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early yesterday, local authorities said. The train driver spotted the herd of about 100 elephants and used the emergency brakes, but the train still hit some of the animals, Indian Railways spokesman Kapinjal Kishore Sharma told reporters. Five train coaches and the engine derailed following the impact, but there were no human casualties, Sharma said. Veterinarians carried out autopsies on the dead elephants, which were to be buried later in the day. The accident site
‘NO AMNESTY’: Tens of thousands of people joined the rally against a bill that would slash the former president’s prison term; President Lula has said he would veto the bill Tens of thousands of Brazilians on Sunday demonstrated against a bill that advanced in Congress this week that would reduce the time former president Jair Bolsonaro spends behind bars following his sentence of more than 27 years for attempting a coup. Protests took place in the capital, Brasilia, and in other major cities across the nation, including Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, Salvador and Recife. On Copacabana’s boardwalk in Rio de Janeiro, crowds composed of left-wing voters chanted “No amnesty” and “Out with Hugo Motta,” a reference to the speaker of the lower house, which approved the bill on Wednesday last week. It is
REVENGE: Trump said he had the support of the Syrian government for the strikes, which took place in response to an Islamic State attack on US soldiers last week The US launched large-scale airstrikes on more than 70 targets across Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday, fulfilling US President Donald Trump’s vow to strike back after the killing of two US soldiers. “This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance,” US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote on social media. “Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.” The US Central Command said that fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery targeted ISIS infrastructure and weapon sites. “All terrorists who are evil enough to attack Americans are hereby warned
RSS