Posted: 16 May 2009 1231 hrs
A security guard wearing a protective mask outside the emergency department at the Sungai Buloh hospital.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Saturday confirmed its second case of H1N1 flu, just a day after announcing its first.
"Malaysia has a second case of the A(H1N1) influenza, which was confirmed by the Institute of Medical research this morning," the health ministry's deputy director general Ramlee Rahmat told reporters.
"She is a student, she was on the same flight as the first case (and) she is a friend of the first case," he added.
"She was admitted to the Penang hospital yesterday. She is in stable condition and her fever has subsided."
Ramlee said the student's family had also been placed in home quarantine, but were healthy.
Five family members who live with the 21-year-old man – the first confirmed case on Friday – were previously placed under home quarantine.
Officials have urged people not to be alarmed amid fears that more people have been exposed to the disease.
The government has urged all passengers who travelled on the same Malaysian Airlines flight as the two infected people to contact the ministry.
Ramlee said that there were 192 passengers and 15 crew members on Malaysian Airlines flight MH091 from Newark in the United States to Kuala Lumpur that arrived on May 13.
It was not a code-sharing flight (with Indonesian carrier Garuda) as announced on Friday, he said.
"We are prepared to handle an outbreak. It is good that we have discovered the two cases," Ramlee said.
Malaysian health authorities have installed 20 thermal scanners at the country's entry points to help detect possible cases of the virus.
The latest WHO data showed 7,520 people in 34 countries were confirmed to have caught the A(H1N1) virus.
- AFP/so
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
A security guard wearing a protective mask outside the emergency department at the Sungai Buloh hospital.KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Saturday confirmed its second case of H1N1 flu, just a day after announcing its first.
"Malaysia has a second case of the A(H1N1) influenza, which was confirmed by the Institute of Medical research this morning," the health ministry's deputy director general Ramlee Rahmat told reporters.
"She is a student, she was on the same flight as the first case (and) she is a friend of the first case," he added.
"She was admitted to the Penang hospital yesterday. She is in stable condition and her fever has subsided."
Ramlee said the student's family had also been placed in home quarantine, but were healthy.
Five family members who live with the 21-year-old man – the first confirmed case on Friday – were previously placed under home quarantine.
Officials have urged people not to be alarmed amid fears that more people have been exposed to the disease.
The government has urged all passengers who travelled on the same Malaysian Airlines flight as the two infected people to contact the ministry.
Ramlee said that there were 192 passengers and 15 crew members on Malaysian Airlines flight MH091 from Newark in the United States to Kuala Lumpur that arrived on May 13.
It was not a code-sharing flight (with Indonesian carrier Garuda) as announced on Friday, he said.
"We are prepared to handle an outbreak. It is good that we have discovered the two cases," Ramlee said.
Malaysian health authorities have installed 20 thermal scanners at the country's entry points to help detect possible cases of the virus.
The latest WHO data showed 7,520 people in 34 countries were confirmed to have caught the A(H1N1) virus.
- AFP/so
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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