Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
A (H1N1): First locally-transmitted case confirmed
PUTRAJAYA: A 17-year-old girl admitted at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) has been confirmed as the first person who has caught Influenza A (H1N1).
The girl was in contact with a confirmed patient who had returned from Melbourne on June 10 although she herself -- the 19th confirmed case in Malaysia to date -- had not visited any countries with confirmed cases of the flu.
She was coughing, one of the symptoms of the flu, at 9pm last Sunday and began developing a fever the following day, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
She went to UMMC that morning and was subsequently referred to Sungai Buloh Hospital at 10am.
During investigations, the girl reported that she had had contact with the student who returned from Melbourne, the 12th positive case, last Saturday.
She was however not declared as a contact by that person.
This resulted in the current case not being monitored and quarantined and as a consequence, another 20 people had been in contact with her and have been exposed to the flu virus.
Besides the girl, four other people were also confirmed over the last 24 hours to have caught the flu. They are all imported cases.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/17/nation/20090617171933&sec=nation
PUTRAJAYA: A 17-year-old girl admitted at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) has been confirmed as the first person who has caught Influenza A (H1N1).
The girl was in contact with a confirmed patient who had returned from Melbourne on June 10 although she herself -- the 19th confirmed case in Malaysia to date -- had not visited any countries with confirmed cases of the flu.
She was coughing, one of the symptoms of the flu, at 9pm last Sunday and began developing a fever the following day, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
She went to UMMC that morning and was subsequently referred to Sungai Buloh Hospital at 10am.
During investigations, the girl reported that she had had contact with the student who returned from Melbourne, the 12th positive case, last Saturday.
She was however not declared as a contact by that person.
This resulted in the current case not being monitored and quarantined and as a consequence, another 20 people had been in contact with her and have been exposed to the flu virus.
Besides the girl, four other people were also confirmed over the last 24 hours to have caught the flu. They are all imported cases.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/17/nation/20090617171933&sec=nation
