Chickenpox and its prevention
Yow Hui Yin,BPharm, PhD, RPh Most people get chickenpox during their childhood. However, there is a possibility that chicken pox occurs in an adult who has never had it before. Did you know that chickenpox is highly contagious? It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus which spreads from person to person easily, especially to those […]
Rabies: What it is and why it matters to me?
John Tiong Jeh LungMPharm, PhD, RPh Lau Hui LingMPharm, PhD, RPh In recent days, a number of rabies cases have been reported in Malaysia. The last canine rabies outbreak in the country was in 2015, which ended after mass vaccination and controversial culling of potentially infected animals. Despite multiple dog bite cases during that period, […]
Leptospirosis! Not again!
Dr Yeap Li LingBPharm, PhD, RPh Leptospirosis, better known among the locals as “rat urine disease” is in the public eye once again. This is following the release of forensic investigations that uncovered leptospirosis infection as the actual cause of death of a young student from Johor, whose assault case made headlines in recent weeks. In […]