Beginning in January 2018, an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) occurred among children nationwide across Malaysia. Nearly 38,000 cases...
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Hand, foot, and mouth disease (redirect from HFMD)
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally unwell...
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children in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. Sarawak is the first state in Malaysia that reported HFMD outbreak. An estimated 28 to 31 of the infected...
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Since January 2020, the medical response and preparedness for the outbreak in Malaysia are overseen by the Director-General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah...
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The Sarawak rabies outbreak is an ongoing rabies outbreak in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. Until 6 December 2022, 49 confirmed rabies cases and 44...
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2024 Kuala Lumpur sinkhole (category August 2024 events in Malaysia)
(26 ft) deep sinkhole that formed in Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 23 August 2024, possibly caused by sewage pipe ruptures and other geographical...
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Highland Towers collapse (category 1993 in Malaysia)
collapse occurred on 11 December 1993 in Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. Tower Block 1 collapsed from a major landslide caused by heavy rains that...
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Malaysia was affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004. Despite its proximity to the epicentre of the earthquake, Malaysia...
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least 164 deaths. The storm also affected Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Malaysia, and Cambodia to a lesser degree. The origins of Typhoon Linda were from...
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1998–1999 Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak occurred from September 1998 to May 1999 in the states of Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor in Malaysia. A total...
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Typhoon Lekima (section Malaysia)
The system also caused minor damage in Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. In Malaysia, the typhoon brought up strong tides and partially destroyed the coastal...
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Typhoon Molave (section Malaysia)
Responsibility (PAR) and drifted away from the Philippines. The state of Sabah in Malaysia was also affected by the typhoon which was reported to be at 703 kilometers...
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Tropical Storm Kai-tak (section Brunei and Malaysia)
a west-southwestward direction until it dissipated on December 23 near Malaysia. When the storm inched closer to the Philippines, PAGASA sent a storm warning...
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2024 Southeast Asia heat wave (category 2024 in Malaysia)
families. The National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) and the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) worked with local agencies to carry out three days of...
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Tropical Storm Vamei (category Tropical cyclones in Malaysia)
strengthened quickly and made landfall along extreme southeastern Peninsular Malaysia. Vamei rapidly weakened into a remnant low over Sumatra on 28 December...
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was reported. Strong winds and high seas were recorded off the coast of Malaysia, prompting a tropical cyclone advisory to be issued. In Hainan, China,...
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2005 Malaysian haze was an air pollution crisis caused primarily by fires in neighbouring Indonesia. In August 2005, haze spread across Malaysia from...
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Sukumaran, Tashny (16 March 2020). "Coronavirus: Malaysia in partial lockdown from March 18 to limit outbreak". South China Morning Post. Archived from the...
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Enterovirus 71 (section Outbreaks)
suspected outbreak of an infectious disease they are responsible for public notification. After the observed outbreak of HFMD and herpangina in Malaysia in 1997...
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2020–2021 Malaysian floods is an event when several states in Malaysia were flooded in late 2020 and early 2021. Floods caused about tens of thousands...
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Pantai Remis landslide (category Landslides in Malaysia)
and flood that occurred on 21 October 1993, near Pantai Remis in Perak, Malaysia. The landslide took place in an abandoned open cast tin mine (in a region...
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The Peninsular Malaysia tornado outbreak of 2014 (Malay: Serangan Puting Beliung Semenanjung Malaysia 2014) is a natural phenomenon that took place in...
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A series of flash floods hit different areas of Thailand and Malaysia in 2010. Separate but related floods began in the Northeast and Central Thailand...
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2023 Asia heat wave (category 2023 disasters in Malaysia)
including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. Several regional temperature records have been...
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List of epidemics and pandemics (redirect from List of Bubonic plague outbreaks)
doi:10.3201/eid2403.171303. PMC 5823341. PMID 29460747.2008–2015, ≈13 million HFMD cases were reported, including 123,261 severe cases and 3,322 deaths in 31...
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2015 Sabah earthquake (category 2015 in Malaysia)
Sabah, Malaysia with a moment magnitude of 6.0 on 5 June, which lasted for 30 seconds. The earthquake was the strongest to affect Malaysia since the...
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2008 Bukit Antarabangsa landslide (category Landslides in Malaysia)
morning of 6 December 2008, at the town of Bukit Antarabangsa of Selangor, Malaysia. 4 people were killed while 15 others were injured from the incident. 14...
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1997 Southeast Asian haze (category Air pollution in Malaysia)
parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan. Its northward extension partially reached Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and the Philippines and its westward extension...
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outbreak was a measles outbreak that occurred among the Orang Asli sub-group of Batek people in Kuala Koh Village in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia,...
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2019 Kim Kim River toxic pollution (category 2019 in Malaysia)
chemical waste dumping at the Kim Kim River in Pasir Gudang of Johor in Malaysia. The illegal dumping released toxic fumes, affecting 6,000 people and hospitalising...
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