Orang Asli (Indigenous Malaysian) Biomedical Bibliography AS Baer

122. Polunin, I. The medical natural history of Malayan Aborigines. MJM 8:55-174, 1953. (A
doctoral dissertation; has genetic, infectious-disease, and nutritional data; reports resettled Semai
had a death rate 3.9 times that of the birth rate; gives some age-sex data and data on Orang Seletar
in Johore and on Lanoh; reports over 70% of one lowland Semai group had malaria, as judged by
enlarged spleens.)
123. Polunin, I. Culture and disease among the Malayan and Borneo Aborigines. Abstract. 10 th
Pacific Sci. Congress, 1961.
124. Polunin, I. Health and disease in contemporary primitive societies. In Diseases in Antiquity,
D. Brothwell and A. Sandison, eds. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1967. Pp. 69-97. (A review,
based in part on Polunin’s work with Jah Hut, Semai, and Lanoh.)
125. Polunin, I. Some characteristics of tribal peoples. Ciba Foundation Symposium 49:5-20,
1997. (Generally on health.)
126. Prathap, K. Liver fluke in a Malaysian Orang Asli (Aborigine.) TRSTMH 67:881-882,
1973. (Showed the fluke to be endemic in Pahang.)
127. Prathap, K., and R. Gilman. The histopathology of acute intestinal amebiasis. American J.
Pathology 60:229-246, 1970. (On 51 Orang Asli colitis patients at Gombak hospital.)
128. Prathap, K., N. Haug, and C. P. Ramachandran. Hepatic and pulmonary Porocephaliasis in
Malaysian Orang Asli. MJM 23:92-95, 1968. (Autopsy study on an adult Semai from Pahang
revealed incidental pentastomid infection in the liver; pentastomes are wormlike arthropods.)
129. Prathap, K., K. S. Lau, and J. Bolton. Pentastomiasis: a common finding at autopsy among
Malaysian aborigines. AJTMH 18 (1):20-27, 1969.
130. Prathap, K., and G. Montgomery. Aortic and coronary atherosclerosis in the Malaysian
Orang Asli. Pathology 6:255-261, 1974. (76% of hospital-located Orang Asli deaths were due to
TB and other infections, 9% to cancer, and virtually none to heart disease: atherosclerotic lesions
in aortas and coronary arteries, postmortem, were rarer than in other global populations.)
131. Rajeswari, B., B. Sinniah, and H. Hussein. Socioeconomic factors associated with intestinal
parasites among children living in Gombak, Malaysia. Asia Pacific J. Public Health 7 (1):21-25,
1994. (89% of Orang Asli school children had intestinal parasites.)
132. Ramah, N., et al. Parasitic infections among aborigine children at Post Brooke, Kelantan,
Malaysia. MJM 52:412-414, 1997. (On Temiar; 60% had Ascaris, 35% had dental caries, 45%
showed signs of anemia, and 50% of families reported that at least one of their children had died.
Med. teams visited 4 times/year and there was a small clinic with a medical aide. The authors
urged that a larger clinic be established there.)
133. Rohela, M., et al. A case of auricular myiasis in Malaysia. SEAJTMPH 37 (suppl. 3):91-94,
2006. (A mentally retarded Orang Asli man had maggots in his right ear.)
134. Roslan Ismail. Current status of other infectious diseases in the Orang Asli. In Second
National Conference on Infection and Infection Control, March 1997, Ipoh, Malaysia.
Postgraduate Med. Education Soc., 1997. Pp. 60-63. (The author, Gombak hospital director,
discussed malaria, cholera, and HIV/AIDS, in particular.)