Ministry of Health Hotline (8am – 9pm): 03-88810200 / 0300, 03-88834414 / 4415. Email: cprc@moh.gov.my. Website.

27th November 2009: The WHO reports that the global number of swine flu deaths jumped >1,000 in one week.

28th October 2009: Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said the number of cases of A(H1N1) is on the rise in North America, Western Europe and East Asia while in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite.

26th October 2009: Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said Malaysia will receive the first batch of anti-H1N1 vaccines at the end of October ordered from Great Britain. Amount to arrive: 78,000 doses. Amount ordered: 400,000 doses. Meant for: front-liners in healthcare and high-risk groups. Balance to arrive January 2010.

24th October 2009: the US declares H1N1 a national emergency.

19th September 2009: on 77 deaths: a 15-year-old asthmatic schoolgirl in Kedah, who died 11th September. She received outpatient treatment for influenza-like illness on 7th September, then admitted 4 days later to the ICU when she did not recover. Antiviral drugs were given, but she died 6 hours later. Cause of death: severe pneumonia with H1N1 infection and secondary bacterial infection. A throat swab later confirmed it.

16th September 2009: on 76 deaths:

(i) a 45-year-old woman from Tambunan, Sabah who died 26th August. She was admitted 17th August at Tambunan Hospital for fever, cough and flu which she’d been suffering from for 3 days. Later she was referred to Keningau Hospital’s ICU and antiviral treatment was started. However, she died 10 days later. Cause was recorded as “severe bronchopneumonia with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” and was confirmed to be due to H1N1 on 19th August. This is the 4th death in Sabah due to the virus.

(ii) a 19-year-old girl from Bentong, Pahang who died 1st September. She was admitted to Bentong Hospital on 30th August for a 5-day-old cough and 1-day-old fever. Antiviral treatment was started the same day. She died due to “severe pneumonia with H1N1 infection”. Case was confirmed 3rd September.

15th September 2009: Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona told a meeting of flu experts sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Medicine that the virus circulated undetected in pigs for about 10 years before it jumped to people and probably circulated for months under the radar.

So as anybody can see, the effect has been such that people have even postponed checking out oahu hotels for their overseas vacation.

Part 2 of the chronology.
Part 1 of the chronology.

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