Covid-19 pandemic brought devastating economic and social disruption. Ten of millions of people are risking to drop into extreme poverty while more than three million of people are dead due to Covid-19. What can we do now to prevent the emergence of pandemic in the future? First, surveillance and detection […]
Recently, Singapore has recalled eggs imported from Lay Hong Bhd Layer Farm Jeram and Linggi Agriculture Sdn Bhd from Malaysia due to the presence of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). Egg is a common ingredient in various types of cuisines. As eggs are an essential component of our diet, it is important […]
According to World Health Organisation, malnutrition is defined as deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of nutrients and has been regarded as public health issues. In fact, millions of people have been afflicted by different forms of malnutrition where 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese while 462 […]
In the wake of second wave of COVID-19 infection, the government of Malaysia had allocated RM2.05 billion to purchase three types of COVID-19 vaccines which are Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from America and Germany, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from United Kingdom and China’s Sinovac vaccine. The total vaccines bought are adequate to cover more […]
On 24 February 2021, the prime minister, Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin bin Haji Muhammad Yassin became the first individual getting a COVID-19 vaccine in Malaysia. This event has shown the importance of COVID-19 vaccine. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a vaccine is a product that […]
There are different types of vaccines but they share similar objective which is to teach the immune system how to fight off certain type of bacteria or virus. There are several types of vaccine for example inactivated vaccines, live-attenuated vaccines, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and others. Inactivated vaccines use the […]
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme is implemented in three phases starting from February 24, with the first phase from February to April 2021 for the front liners involving 500,000 people. The second phase, from April to August, will involve senior citizens aged 65 and above, the high-risk groups, and the […]
