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Recommended: Role of a health worker in controlling infection

According to World Health Organization, the infectious disease is defined as diseases that are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites; and the diseases can or cannot be spread, directly or indirectly, from people to people. In fact, transmission rate of infectious diseases is very high in Malaysia as Malaysia is a warm and a high humidity country. The infectious diseases in Malaysia are transmitted via vector borne, food or waterborne and water contact. However, vector borne is one of the major transmission vectors in Malaysia compared to others, according to Health Ministry Malaysia because we cannot avoid the omnipresent mosquito [1]. The three major diseases that included in vector borne are dengue fever, malaria and Chikungunya (CHIKV) [1,2,3].
First of all, recent statistics of dengue fever and fatalities in Malaysia are ringing alarm bells across the country in this few years [1]. Dengue fever is usually transmitted by Aedes Mosquito. One is infected with dengue fever by the bite of mosquito and eventually he/she will have some sign and symptom such as frontal headache, retro orbital pain, body aches, nausea and vomiting, joint pains, weakness, rash, anorexia, altered taste sensation, and have a mild sore throat. [1] If those signs and symptoms occur, he/she should see the doctor immediately and get a treatment because dengue fever may cause death. A doctor or physician will usually do some test to determine whether the person infected with dengue fever such as hemagglutination-inhibition (HI), complement fixation (CF), neutralization test (NT), immune-globulin M (IgM) capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MAC-ELISA) as well as indirect immunoglobulin G ELISA. [1] Once he/s...

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...are still many unknown issues for those infectious diseases due to the limitation of the technology nowadays. For instance, it is difficult to differentiate between dengue, malaria and Chikungunya. Hence, government and other health care professionals should take their responsibility to dedicate more in scientific studies in order to find out more about those infectious diseases so that the diseases can be cured. Besides that, prevent is better than cure, therefore, it is also important for the community to protect themselves from getting those diseases.

Works Cited

1. Gubler, D. Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Clinical microbiology reviews. 1998;11(3):480--496.
2. Singh B, Daneshvar C. Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Malaysia. MED J Malaysia. 2010;65(3):166--72.
3. Sam I, AbuBakar S. Chikungunya virus infection. Medical Journal of Malaysia. 2006;61(2):264.

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