Here we go again ... a QR code and the hospital scam continues ...
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has introduced strict rules for screening visitors travelling from countries where monkeypox has been found.
Travellers will have to fill in health declaration cards to be presented on arrival. The cards will also have a QR code that needs to be scanned so that incoming tourists can be provided information about symptoms and report them after arriving. They can then be advised on where to get medical help.
The DDC had set up an emergency operations centre (EOC) to monitor the spread of the virus and demanded immigration officials watch out for visitors from Central and West Africa, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal, where the virus has been detected.
Any visitors who appear to have potential symptoms will be hospitalised for tests.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... x-measures
Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
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Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up anti-monkeypox measures
Got to stop all those tourists from Africa, they've been arriving here by the thousands.
Probably a lot of Portuguese and Spaniards too.
This govt. is mentally deficient. But we all know that anyway.
Probably a lot of Portuguese and Spaniards too.
This govt. is mentally deficient. But we all know that anyway.
Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up anti-monkeypox measures
I don't think the Africans are tourists somehow, most of them are here for work/earning opportunities that are better than where they're from.
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Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up anti-monkeypox measures
Don't want to go off topic, but someone sent me this, from tiktok, and I went to the sites, to verify, and they were accurate. Shortly after, returned to the site as someone point out, now updated, since called out on it.
Does give one pause to think ...
Does give one pause to think ...
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Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up anti-monkeypox measures
Too much monkey business.
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Monkeypox: What are the symptoms, how does it spread, and how worried should we be?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022 ... /101091028
An unusual outbreak of monkeypox has now spread to at least 15 countries, with Australia recording its first two cases of the viral disease on Friday.
Monkeypox, which is caused by the monkeypox virus — a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox — is rarely seen outside of Africa, and not known to spread easily from person to person.
Since early May, at least 120 confirmed or suspected cases have been detected outside Africa, including in Europe, the US, Canada, Israel and Australia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
While monkeypox is considerably less infectious than respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, and the outbreak is not a cause for panic, the rapid spread of the virus appears to signal a shift in its behaviour.
"Monkeypox is not on the same scale as COVID-19 … it doesn't send lots and lots of people to hospital," infectious diseases expert Sanjaya Senanayake told ABC News Breakfast.
What exactly is monkeypox?
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that was first discovered in monkeys in the 1950s and first reported in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It causes flu-like symptoms and a distinctive skin rash or lesions — very similar to what was seen in smallpox patients in the past, although much less severe.
long article at link..............................................
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022 ... /101091028
An unusual outbreak of monkeypox has now spread to at least 15 countries, with Australia recording its first two cases of the viral disease on Friday.
Monkeypox, which is caused by the monkeypox virus — a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox — is rarely seen outside of Africa, and not known to spread easily from person to person.
Since early May, at least 120 confirmed or suspected cases have been detected outside Africa, including in Europe, the US, Canada, Israel and Australia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
While monkeypox is considerably less infectious than respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, and the outbreak is not a cause for panic, the rapid spread of the virus appears to signal a shift in its behaviour.
"Monkeypox is not on the same scale as COVID-19 … it doesn't send lots and lots of people to hospital," infectious diseases expert Sanjaya Senanayake told ABC News Breakfast.
What exactly is monkeypox?
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that was first discovered in monkeys in the 1950s and first reported in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It causes flu-like symptoms and a distinctive skin rash or lesions — very similar to what was seen in smallpox patients in the past, although much less severe.
long article at link..............................................
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Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
Three suspected monkeypox cases in fact herpes, says DDC
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... s-says-ddc
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has confirmed that three suspected cases of monkeypox were in fact herpes.
Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the DDC, on Sunday said that lab results from the Medical Sciences Department and the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre under Chulalongkorn University confirmed the cases were not monkeypox.
As of yet no monkeypox infection has been found in the country.
The three people suspected of having contracted monkeypox are being treated at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute. The DDC's Epidemiology Division will talk to the media later today.
Dr Opas said anyone with a condition similar to monkeypox infection will be examined for the disease. Health control measures at airports likewise will include enhanced screening procedures.
"However, initial information shows that monkeypox infection does not spread as easily as Covid-19. Transmission requires close interaction with a symptomatic individual," Dr Opas said.
Meanwhile, Dr Suprakit Jiraratwattana of the Medical Services Department's Dermatology Institute said monkeypox can be transmitted by the aerosol route within one metre. Other infection possibilities include eating undercooked infected meat or direct contact with infected meat, especially by those who prepare raw, wild meat.
Monkeypox infection is less severe than smallpox, which had a fatality rate of about 30% while the fatality rate for monkeypox is 3%-6% in countries with adequate healthcare systems. The ratio may rise to 6%-10% in less developed countries, he said. Even before the most recent global outbreak, monkeypox has never been detected in Thailand.
Normally monkeypox patients can recover within 2-4 weeks if they do not develop intercurrent diseases such as encephalitis, pneumonitis and septicaemia, he said.
Dr Suprakit said studies of monkeypox, herpes, chickenpox and shingles show that the diseases originate from the same virus family.
Patients with herpes will experience blisters on their lips, genital organ and coccyx. After recovery, the virus remains and will eventually re-emerge.
For both monkeypox and chickenpox, the condition begins with a fever. A rash and bumps will later occur throughout the body of chickenpox patients, while monkeypox produces the same condition but is limited to certain areas.
Chickenpox patients may experience both blisters and pustules at the same time, whereas monkeypox will have one or the other.
The clinical sign differentiating monkeypox from chickenpox is enlarged lymph nodes, he said. Incubation duration is about 21 days.
''Despite the full-scale reopening of the country, protective measures including social distancing, wearing face mask and screening are still required,'' he said.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... s-says-ddc
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has confirmed that three suspected cases of monkeypox were in fact herpes.
Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the DDC, on Sunday said that lab results from the Medical Sciences Department and the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre under Chulalongkorn University confirmed the cases were not monkeypox.
As of yet no monkeypox infection has been found in the country.
The three people suspected of having contracted monkeypox are being treated at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute. The DDC's Epidemiology Division will talk to the media later today.
Dr Opas said anyone with a condition similar to monkeypox infection will be examined for the disease. Health control measures at airports likewise will include enhanced screening procedures.
"However, initial information shows that monkeypox infection does not spread as easily as Covid-19. Transmission requires close interaction with a symptomatic individual," Dr Opas said.
Meanwhile, Dr Suprakit Jiraratwattana of the Medical Services Department's Dermatology Institute said monkeypox can be transmitted by the aerosol route within one metre. Other infection possibilities include eating undercooked infected meat or direct contact with infected meat, especially by those who prepare raw, wild meat.
Monkeypox infection is less severe than smallpox, which had a fatality rate of about 30% while the fatality rate for monkeypox is 3%-6% in countries with adequate healthcare systems. The ratio may rise to 6%-10% in less developed countries, he said. Even before the most recent global outbreak, monkeypox has never been detected in Thailand.
Normally monkeypox patients can recover within 2-4 weeks if they do not develop intercurrent diseases such as encephalitis, pneumonitis and septicaemia, he said.
Dr Suprakit said studies of monkeypox, herpes, chickenpox and shingles show that the diseases originate from the same virus family.
Patients with herpes will experience blisters on their lips, genital organ and coccyx. After recovery, the virus remains and will eventually re-emerge.
For both monkeypox and chickenpox, the condition begins with a fever. A rash and bumps will later occur throughout the body of chickenpox patients, while monkeypox produces the same condition but is limited to certain areas.
Chickenpox patients may experience both blisters and pustules at the same time, whereas monkeypox will have one or the other.
The clinical sign differentiating monkeypox from chickenpox is enlarged lymph nodes, he said. Incubation duration is about 21 days.
''Despite the full-scale reopening of the country, protective measures including social distancing, wearing face mask and screening are still required,'' he said.
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Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
Despite all the evidence suggesting that the spread of monkeypox is most likely to have been spread by human to human and nothing to do with monkeys, Thai authorities thought it wise to test 25,000 monkeys, all of which were negative allowing them to say "In Thailand even our monkeys don't have monkeypox!"
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... in-monkeys
A bit like Spanish 'flu which had almost nothing to do with Spain! Probably another brainwave of our beloved and respected Anutin.....The virus is called monkeypox because researchers first detected it in laboratory monkeys in 1958, but it is thought to transmit to people from wild animals such as rodents or from other infected people. In an average year, a few thousand cases occur in Africa, typically in the western and central parts of the continent.
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... in-monkeys
Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
Well if monkeypox prompts a mass testing of monkeys, let's hope we don't get a surge of chickenpox. Their work will really be a challenge then!
Re: Department of Disease Control ramps up monkeypox measures
This is from a report mainly concerned with an impending early 'flu wave coupled with covid. A statement regarding monkeypox was included but without explanation:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... monkeypox/Early UK flu wave threatens to coincide with rising Covid and monkeypox cases
Cases have recently exceeded 1,000, official data show, and are spreading predominantly in gay and bisexual men.
London is at the epicentre of the outbreak, with 659 confirmed infected individuals, with the majority of patients gay and bisexual men between the age of 31 and 43.