Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Sarawak embarked on the elimination of autochthonous human malaria in 2012 and had set 2020 as its deadline for elimination of human malaria transmission in Sarawak. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of imported human malaria in Sarawak. METHODS: This was a retrospective descriptive study conducted on the malaria epidemiological surveillance data in Sarawak State Health Department between January 2013 and December 2017. RESULTS: There were 994 imported human malaria cases reported in Sarawak in 2013-2017 with an increasing trend from 182 cases in 2013 to 218 cases in 2017. 978 (98.4%) cases were males. The distribution of the cases by species were Plasmodium vivax (48.6%), Plasmodium falciparum (35.3%), Plasmodium malariae (7.0%), Plasmodium ovale (5.6%), Mixed Species (2.6%), and Plasmodium knowlesi (0.8%). The age-group distribution of the cases was "0-19 years"(1.0%), "20-39 years"(35.6%), "40-59 years"(59.9%) and "60 years and above"(3.5%). 92.3% of the cases were Malaysians. DISCUSSION: Autochthonous human malaria had been on the decline in Sarawak from 2012 to 2015, and the elimination of autochthonous human malaria in Sarawak has been successful in which there was no reported autochthonous human malaria since 2016. The persistent burden of imported malaria in Sarawak may contribute to introduced malaria which could further contribute to autochthonous malaria cases which could prevent Sarawak from achieving malaria elimination in Sarawak by 2020.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-189,
title = {Imported Human Malaria in Sarawak, 2013-2017},
author = {Ooi Choo Huck},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Sarawak embarked on the elimination of autochthonous human malaria in 2012 and had set 2020 as its deadline for elimination of human malaria transmission in Sarawak. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of imported human malaria in Sarawak. METHODS: This was a retrospective descriptive study conducted on the malaria epidemiological surveillance data in Sarawak State Health Department between January 2013 and December 2017. RESULTS: There were 994 imported human malaria cases reported in Sarawak in 2013-2017 with an increasing trend from 182 cases in 2013 to 218 cases in 2017. 978 (98.4%) cases were males. The distribution of the cases by species were Plasmodium vivax (48.6%), Plasmodium falciparum (35.3%), Plasmodium malariae (7.0%), Plasmodium ovale (5.6%), Mixed Species (2.6%), and Plasmodium knowlesi (0.8%). The age-group distribution of the cases was "0-19 years"(1.0%), "20-39 years"(35.6%), "40-59 years"(59.9%) and "60 years and above"(3.5%). 92.3% of the cases were Malaysians. DISCUSSION: Autochthonous human malaria had been on the decline in Sarawak from 2012 to 2015, and the elimination of autochthonous human malaria in Sarawak has been successful in which there was no reported autochthonous human malaria since 2016. The persistent burden of imported malaria in Sarawak may contribute to introduced malaria which could further contribute to autochthonous malaria cases which could prevent Sarawak from achieving malaria elimination in Sarawak by 2020.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Vector Borne Diseases Section, Sarawak Health Department, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.},
keywords = {elimination, imported malaria, Sarawak},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}