So this article says that this is the first casualty this year. The mother and daughter that died earlier in the month don't count or what!
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=45495PUTRAJAYA (April 13, 2010): A 42-year-old lawyer from Johor Baru died from A(H1N1) influenza yesterday, making him the first casualty of the disease so far this year.
According to Health Ministry director-general Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican(pix), the patient was admitted to a private hospital with influenza-like illness on April 4.
He said the patient was obese, which was one of the risk factors, and also suffered from other complications.
"He was treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) but his condition worsened and died on Monday due to H1N1 pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome," he told a press conference after chairing the meeting for the technical committee on the influenza today.
Mohd Ismail said the death of the lawyer was the 78th caused by the influenza since its outbreak last year.
He said there were 678 cases of influenza-like illnesses receiving treatment in hospitals and 66 (9.7%) of them were positive, while five were being treated in the ICU.
"This is not the second wave of the A(H1N1) as we expect the second wave to have different patterns (of infection) and complications but the people must be careful and take precautionary measures because the influenza is still active not only in Malaysia but also in other countries," he said.
Mohd Ismail advised doctors to not only rely on the rapid test to diagnose a patient if he or she is infected with the disease but also to look at the patient's condition and history.
"Patients in the high risk group (pregnant, obese, asthmatic, chronic lung disease and diabetic), or suffer from high fever for more than two days or are diagnosed positive in the rapid test, will be given anti-viral treatment," he said.
He said as of April 9, a total of 95,770 people had been vaccinated and 68% of them were the
ministry's frontliners,(
who exactly would that be I wonder 
) 22% non-ministry frontliners and 10% members of public.
"The vaccination will be escalated as we want more people to be vaccinated," he said.
On school closures, Mohd Ismail said health officers will advise schools on the need to close.
"If the headmaster thinks the school can still function, students with influenza-like illness should be isolated and sent home for home quarantine.
"However, if many students and teachers are infected, the headmaster can inform the state education director, and the director-general of the education ministry will make a decision on whether to close the school," he said. -- theSun
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