Sufficient anti-rabies vaccine stocks in Sarawak
Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah says health ministry has always ensured every state keeps at least a minimum stock of the vaccine.
Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Health Ministry had always ensured that every state kept at least a minimum stock of the vaccine.
“Sarawak General Hospital kept a stock of the vaccine for any contingency of rabies infections. The state has been rabies-free until it had its first confirmed case on June 30, 2017.
“Based on the Interim Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Human Rabies in Malaysia, dog bite categories 2 and 3 must be examined and assessed by a medical specialist before being determined as having an indication for vaccination or otherwise,” he said in a statement here today.
He issued the statement following a press report claiming that Sarawak did not have sufficient anti-rabies vaccines.
He also said no new cases had been reported to date.
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“The status of the rabies outbreak is five cases among humans where four were fatal; one is still being warded at the general hospital,” he said.