This news article outlines the major health challenges faced in Malaysia during 2024, focusing on the delisting of nicotine and the implementation of the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act. It also discusses the potential threat of long Covid and the spread of bird flu to both humans and animals.
Some of the important issues for Malaysian healthcare that occurred last year (2024) are discussed below. The delisting of nicotine from the Poisons List on April 1, 2023, was the primary event that was deleterious to Malaysians’ health. The Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act, which was gazetted on Feb 2 last year (2024) was implemented on Oct 1 (2024).
During the 18-month period when nicotine sales were not regulated, there was an opening of the floodgates to advertising, promotion and sales of nicotine products; entry of tobacco companies to the vaping market; and legalised sales of nicotine products to everyone, including minors below 18 years of age. The Act can now only limit the damage to the health of young Malaysians, many of whom would have become addicted to nicotine during this period. The effects of nicotine addiction would not be obvious immediately, but it will certainly surface in the medium to long term. The omission of smoking devices in the Act, with the statement that safety standards of these devices would be regulated by the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry, and manufacturing by the Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry, will pose a regulatory conundrum.Hopefully, the trend will go south in 2025, or at least, not increase further.However, the effects of long Covid in Malaysians are unknown because of the lack of published data.It infected 300 bird species and at least 70 mammalian species in 2024. Multiple human cases of bird flu were reported in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam. Large and continuing outbreaks in birds and mammals increases the likelihood of mutations and the mixing of bird and human influenza genetic materials, which could lead to a new viral strain with pandemic potentia
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