Should measles be notifiable?

Melioidosis--should it be a notifiable disease in Malaysia?

In 1911 Alfred Whitmore and C.S. Krishnaswami noticed that morphine addicts in Rangoon were afflicted by a lethal illness bearing a striking similarity to glanders!,2. Autopsy findings were characterized by widespread caseous consolidation of the lungs with abscesses in the liver, spleen, kidney and subcutaneous tissues. Glanders, an infection caused by Burkholderia mallei, is predominantly, a ...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Letter to the editor. Spotlight on measles 2010: measles in healthcare workers - vaccination should be revisited.

Should HIV be a notifiable disease? Old questions with some new arguments.

HIV notification enters national debate regularly, often introduced by politicians and supported by many individual healthcare workers. We argue that its proponents advance confused or poorly informed rationales for making HIV notifiable. We present reasons why making HIV notifiable would be inappropriate in South Africa, why the public health benefits of a notification programme are not even l...

Should We Consider another Booster Dose of Measles Vaccine?

Background: To date, 36 years has passed since the beginning of measles vaccination; the disease is still circulating around the world, threatening lives of human beings especially in developing countries.  In recent years, we have confronted measles in previously vaccinated adults from all over the country. Objective: To find out if there is a need for changing our routine measles vaccination ...