Malaysia confirmed its second case of swine flu Saturday, a woman who recently returned from the United States. Ramlee Rahmat, the Health Ministry deputy director-general, said the woman had returned to Malaysia from the United States on Wednesday and was hospitalized Friday in northern Penang state. Tests confirmed early Saturday that she was infected with [...]

Director-general of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said Malaysia’s first influenza A(H1N1) case involved a 21-year-old male student who returned from the United States two days ago and started having fever, sore throat and body aches yesterday, and was admitted to Sungai Buloh Hospital at 6.45pm the same day. “He has been given [...]

Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50 percent less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday. The findings, which held true regardless of the men’s intellectual performance or socio-economic position, could suggest that women rank a man’s [...]

The World Health Organisation chief warned Monday that swine flu could return with a vengeance despite Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon insisting his country has contained the epidemic. WHO chief Margaret Chan said that a second wave of the virus “would be the biggest of all outbreaks the world has faced in the 21st century”, puncturing [...]

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday raised its flu alert to phase five out of six, WHO chief Margaret Chan said, signalling that a pandemic was “imminent” following the swine flu outbreak. “I have decided to raise the influenza pandemic alert from phase four to phase five,” the WHO director general announced after an emergency [...]

Malaysia has the vaccine for swine flu which can be used to stop the spread of the disease to this country. Veterinary Services director-general Datuk Dr Abd Aziz Jamaluddin said the H1N1 vaccine should be injected into pigs as a preventive measure following reports of 81 people killed by the swine flu in Mexico. He [...]