{"id":559859,"date":"2026-03-23T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559859\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:37:09","slug":"why-malaysia-is-losing-the-war-against-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559859\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Malaysia is losing the war against tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuberculosis (TB) was once thought to be a retreating shadow of the past, a relic of a pre-modern era destined for eradication. However, as Dr Kamal Amzan, the\u00a0Chief Executive Officer of IHH Healthcare Malaysia, aptly notes in an article published in the New Straits Times:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTB is up. We know what to do. We just don\u2019t keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This reality in Malaysia today is a sobering reminder that pathogens do not respect borders, socioeconomic status, or optimistic projections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re currently witnessing a dangerous re-emergence of this ancient killer, with 3161 cases reported by mid-February 2026, a 9.8% to 10% increase compared to the corresponding period in 2025.\u00a0As Dr Amzan points out, if we continue to call these outbreaks \u201cunexpected\u201d, it is we, not the pathogen, who are in denial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Building a durable prevention architecture requires moving beyond reactionary \u201cfogging and fatigue\u201d. It necessitates a fundamental shift in how we view health security, social equity and the very structure of our healthcare delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"\" dir=\"\">Tuberculosis Infections Rising in Malaysia with 503 New Cases in Recent Week While WHO Warns of Under-Reporting <a href=\"\">pic.twitter.com\/iEl2u6fuNe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thailand Medical News (@ThailandMedicaX) <a href=\"\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none\" id=\"js-pixel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774305429_560_collect.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This article was first published on <a href=\"https:\/\/lens.monash.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monash Lens<\/a>. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/lens.monash.edu\/tuberculosis-is-rising-in-malaysia-why-prevention-migration-policy-and-primary-care-must-change-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original<br \/>\n        article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis (TB) was once thought to be a retreating shadow of the past, a relic of a pre-modern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-559859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}