OBJECTIVE To characterize influenza seasonality and identify the best time of the year for vaccination against influenza in tropical and subtropical countries of southern and south-eastern Asia that lie north of the equator. METHODS Weekly influenza surveillance data for 2006 to 2011 were obtained from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the...

This study examines the pertinency and materiality of Malaysia’s affiliation with Bangladesh. It presents picture deep reciprocal relationships in trading investment, workforce issues, societal, religious cultural exchange between Malaysia Bangladesh that deserve elevated research to get ideas a further snapshot. The historiographic approach literature-based qualitative method apply this uses w...

A cross-sectional study of intestinal parasitic infections amongst migrant workers in Malaysia was conducted. A total of 388 workers were recruited from five sectors including manufacturing, construction, plantation, domestic and food services. The majority were recruited from Indonesia (n = 167, 43.3%), followed by Nepal (n = 81, 20.9%), Bangladesh (n = 70, 18%), India (n = 47, 12.1%) and Myan...

Background: Pesticide poisoning is a common method of suicide attempt and less commonly accidental poisoning in Bangladesh. This review for the first time estimated the extent and characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Bangladesh and explored existing limitations in methodologies of studies done on poisoning in the country. Methods: A narrative search in electronic medical databases includin...

Arthur Eyre-Brook is an inveterate traveller. Since visiting the USA in 1937 as a Nuffield Scholar he has taken every opportunity to travel the world as a visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, of latter years mainly in the third world. He has visited and worked, sometimes for long periods in Southern Africa, in the South West Pacific in Fiji and Tonga, in Brazil and Chile, in Kuwait and Iraw, in the Su...

Two related, novel, zoonotic paramyxoviruses have been described recently. Hendra virus was first reported in horses and thence humans in Australia in 1994; Nipah virus was first reported in pigs and thence humans in Malaysia in 1998. Human cases of Nipah virus infection, apparently unassociated with infection in livestock, have been reported in Bangladesh since 2001. Species of fruit bats (gen...

Consensus panel: Daniel Surbek (Switzerland*), Gabriela Caracostea (Romania*), Yves Jacquemyn (Belgium*), Susana Santo (Portugal*), Lennart Nordström (Sweden*), Tulia Todros (Italy*), Branka Yli (Norway*), George Farmakidis (Greece*), Sandor Valent (Hungary*), Bruno Carbonne (France*), Kati Ojala (Finland*), José Luis Bartha (Spain*), Joscha Reinhard (Germany*), Anneke Kwee (Netherlands*), Roma...

Nipah virus infection is an emerging disease endemic in Southeast Asia. This virus is carried in fruit bats of the genus Pteropus, a host to which it seems well adapted. It emerges periodically to affect humans, pigs and occasionally other domesticated animals. Nipah virus infections were first described during widespread outbreaks that occurred in Malaysia in 1998-1999. The virus had apparentl...

Nipah and Hendra viruses are two zoonotic paramyxoviruses with an ability to cause fatal encephalitic and respiratory diseases in humans. Hendra virus was first identified in humans in Australia in 1994, with horses as the intermediate host. Nipah virus emerged in humans in 1998 in Malaysia, with pigs as the intermediate host. Nipah virus was later also identified in India and Bangladesh in 200...

violence by family members, strangers and agents of the state; domestic abuse including spousal murder; being burned, disfigured with acid, beaten and threatened; ritual honour killings; and custodial abuse and torture. The focus of this paper is on Pakistani women, but references will also be made to women in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia...