Talking about H1N1

My specialist doctor school mate told us that the H1N1 virus is relatively mild compared to Dengue fever, where the fatality rate is much more higher than H1N1. But this Dengue fever fatalities are reported in a very low profile manner in the country. Our Malaysians always adopt a could not careless kind of attitude and hide our heads in the sand.

I traveled frequently in China and also had home trips every 2 to 3 months while I was posted to China. Looking at how China as a less developed country compared to Malaysia coping with the H1N1 situation, we Malaysia is no where near them in the effort and determination of stopping the spread of this virus. Consider a 1.3 billions population country they have no choice but to curb the spread of the virus in a more careful, strict, effective and comprehensive manner. It is evident from the fact that when the first outbreak was detected, they quarantined the entire flight of the Mexican passengers regardless of such abrupt, seemingly rude and ruthless effort would even offend Mexico as a country state.

Imagine that the Chinese health officers go on board of arriving planes and scan every passenger, and upon arrival to the immigration gates, all passengers are need to be scanned another round before they are allowed to disembark on the land. You thought you are clear from all this mess, but upon arrival to the hotel, the entrance of the hotel is also equipped with temperature sensor to scan every in-going persons before you are allowed to enter.

Contrary to what China had done, when I arrived home in the airport, there is practically no scanning as though H1N1 is not there in Malaysia at all. This is the kind of attitude that we Malaysians have. From this, no matter how much actual effort that might have put in by our government or individuals of the public, I could only deduce that our home grown Dengue outbreak is not taken serious enough by anybody to put a stop to this spread of the infection. The preventive measures taken is merely by random house to house checking of larvae, and occasional fogging AFTER when a Dengue case was discovered. Would someone verify my statement here?