I read this article and was interested to know if anyone knows if this is found in the Hua Hin area ?
Dengue fever kills 12 people in Thailand
BANGKOK, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Public Health Ministry warned the public to be alert regarding dengue fever prevention measures as a dozen of patients died and over 10,000 have suffered from the disease during the first quarter of 2008, according to Chaiya Sasomsub, minister of the Public Health Ministry on Monday.
From January 1 to April 19 this year, the cumulative number of dengue fever patients soared to 10,901 and 99 percent of the patients were completely recovered, Chaiya said.
However, 12 patients in the country have been killed by the dengue fever this year, he said.
"When compared with the same period last year, the number of dengue fever patients has increased by 80 percent," the minister was quoted by local news network The Nation as saying.
Chaiya said he had instructed local health officials nationwide to maintain the campaign to eradicate the mosquito breeding habitats.
I dont want to cause a panic, just want to know if anyone has further information
Regards John
Dengue Fever , is it in Hua Hin ??
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Over the years, I've personally known two people from HH who've been diagnosed with dengue, but there's no guarantee that they came into contact with the mosquito here. Both recovered fully.
I think it's more prevalent in rural areas, so whilst there would appear to be a risk, I would say that it was very low.
I don't believe there's any medical precautions you can take beforehand anyway - other than repellants and covering up. It's a daytime mossie that passes this disease on.
I think it's more prevalent in rural areas, so whilst there would appear to be a risk, I would say that it was very low.
I don't believe there's any medical precautions you can take beforehand anyway - other than repellants and covering up. It's a daytime mossie that passes this disease on.
There is already a thread about this that may be of interest. 
http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/de ... t6113.html
http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/de ... t6113.html
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In the country side.
Have only heard 2 cases my self about 4.5 yrs ago in the Phetchaburi area, 2 girls had it and recovered ok . Not heard of any from that time around here on the Petch river.
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Re: In the country side.
Extra care has to be taken now during the rainy season. Their numbers have multiplied during the last few weeks. Stay away from stagnant waters. They even multiply in the water basin of my bathroom!
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You'll need to pull the plug out then.Ellinas2008 wrote: Extra care has to be taken now during the rainy season. Their numbers have multiplied during the last few weeks. Stay away from stagnant waters. They even multiply in the water basin of my bathroom!
Seriously though, this is the time of year that Dengue mossies are about, they will normally bite you during the day time.
You can also get the lava hatching inside your air con units. Wash a little bit of bleach down your drains once a week. If you're going out for the day, spray around every room and close the door behind you, the smell of the spray and the mossies will be gone when you come home. You can also get a powder from the Tessabahn that you can put into outside drains that will kill any mossie lava for about a month after use.
I had a dose of Dengue (bitten in Bangkok) a few years ago, no fun I can tell you. Roaring head and body aches and a temperature over 100.
It is rare to get Dengue in Hua Hin, but not unknown, I know of one other forum member who had this and had to spend time in the hospital.
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Re: In the country side.
Done!JD wrote: You'll need to pull the plug out then.
I usually pull out the plug at least once a week. There is a product also that looks like powder that when thrown in the water it kills the eggs or something like that. It works very well.
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Dengue virus belong to the familly Flaviviridae, which includes among others HCV, West Nile and Yellow fever viruses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever
There is no cure, and no prophylaxis. It is usually merely unpleasant, unless it is the haemorrhagic variant. It is common in the islands of Thailand - I have been acquainted with a few victims in Ko Tao and Ko Phan Ngan. There is currently a drive underway in Bangkok to heighten awareness, as I understand there has been a recent rise in the rate of infections. Central World Plaza was awash with medic types a couple of weeks ago spreading the news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever
There is no cure, and no prophylaxis. It is usually merely unpleasant, unless it is the haemorrhagic variant. It is common in the islands of Thailand - I have been acquainted with a few victims in Ko Tao and Ko Phan Ngan. There is currently a drive underway in Bangkok to heighten awareness, as I understand there has been a recent rise in the rate of infections. Central World Plaza was awash with medic types a couple of weeks ago spreading the news.
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Some update on this:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/020808_News/ ... news19.php
Wage war on health menace:
The southern province of Ranong, which borders Burma, is small, pleasant, very green and famous for its hot water springs and high annual rainfall. But, two weeks ago, some of that fame turned into notoriety.
Ranong's serenity and quality of life were disrupted by an announcement from the provincial governor's office declaring the province to be a disaster area because of widespread outbreaks of malaria. While local tourism officials were thrown into despair, health authorities began treating nearly 1,500 malaria patients, trying hard to keep their number from rising.
They are confident of success and doctors and patients will no doubt applaud the billions of dollars in increased funding authorised by US President George Bush on Thursday to mount a global onslaught on the scourge of malaria. The mosquito-borne disease now kills more than one million people every year, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Doctors in Ranong have warned that anyone suffering from a high fever, severe headache, chills and muscle pain should seek immediate medical attention because these are symptoms of malaria. Of course they are correct, but the same symptoms could also be those of a nasty viral illness prevalent in Bangkok at the moment, or of the more common dengue fever which is reaping a grim toll on the country this year. While malaria is mostly confined to the border regions, dengue is more common in urban areas.
Just 480 kilometres up the road from Ranong, in Ratchaburi province, at least 1,400 people have been stricken by dengue fever and four are known to have died. Three districts, including tourist magnet Damnoen Saduak, have been declared emergency red zones and heavy fines await those who allow mosquitoes to breed.
The Department of Disease Control says the number of confirmed cases of dengue throughout the nation is up by 72% over last year, with more than 14,000 cases diagnosed in the early part of the rainy season. A World Health Organisation representative in Bangkok describes the disease as the most important neglected communicable disease in Thailand as it is all over the country.
Rising temperatures, longer rainy seasons and increased urbanisation contribute to the explosion of dengue fever cases in the country and the inability of health authorities to control any of this is creating a near-crisis situation.
Dengue is not confined to rural areas. It is also becoming a problem in Bangkok and anyone who has lived through the terrible misery and debilitation the virus can cause, knows it is not a disease to be taken lightly. Each year, deaths and illnesses from the virulent haemorrhagic form of dengue fever cause untold suffering and up to two billion baht worth of damage to the economy. While we can take heart in knowing that researchers are working on a vaccine against the four serotypes of the disease, we must not slacken our efforts to wipe out the striped mosquitoes that bring pain and suffering to so many children and adults.
The US Centers for Disease Control has described dengue as being the "most important mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans", with an estimated 2.5 billion people at risk worldwide per year.
Public awareness campaigns are essential to alert the public on how best to prevent this potentially fatal illness and the importance of eradicating mosquito-breeding areas such as old tyres, flower pots and stagnant pools, especially on construction sites. Our cooperation is vital. This is one big problem we cannot expect government agencies to solve all by themselves.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/020808_News/ ... news19.php
Wage war on health menace:
The southern province of Ranong, which borders Burma, is small, pleasant, very green and famous for its hot water springs and high annual rainfall. But, two weeks ago, some of that fame turned into notoriety.
Ranong's serenity and quality of life were disrupted by an announcement from the provincial governor's office declaring the province to be a disaster area because of widespread outbreaks of malaria. While local tourism officials were thrown into despair, health authorities began treating nearly 1,500 malaria patients, trying hard to keep their number from rising.
They are confident of success and doctors and patients will no doubt applaud the billions of dollars in increased funding authorised by US President George Bush on Thursday to mount a global onslaught on the scourge of malaria. The mosquito-borne disease now kills more than one million people every year, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Doctors in Ranong have warned that anyone suffering from a high fever, severe headache, chills and muscle pain should seek immediate medical attention because these are symptoms of malaria. Of course they are correct, but the same symptoms could also be those of a nasty viral illness prevalent in Bangkok at the moment, or of the more common dengue fever which is reaping a grim toll on the country this year. While malaria is mostly confined to the border regions, dengue is more common in urban areas.
Just 480 kilometres up the road from Ranong, in Ratchaburi province, at least 1,400 people have been stricken by dengue fever and four are known to have died. Three districts, including tourist magnet Damnoen Saduak, have been declared emergency red zones and heavy fines await those who allow mosquitoes to breed.
The Department of Disease Control says the number of confirmed cases of dengue throughout the nation is up by 72% over last year, with more than 14,000 cases diagnosed in the early part of the rainy season. A World Health Organisation representative in Bangkok describes the disease as the most important neglected communicable disease in Thailand as it is all over the country.
Rising temperatures, longer rainy seasons and increased urbanisation contribute to the explosion of dengue fever cases in the country and the inability of health authorities to control any of this is creating a near-crisis situation.
Dengue is not confined to rural areas. It is also becoming a problem in Bangkok and anyone who has lived through the terrible misery and debilitation the virus can cause, knows it is not a disease to be taken lightly. Each year, deaths and illnesses from the virulent haemorrhagic form of dengue fever cause untold suffering and up to two billion baht worth of damage to the economy. While we can take heart in knowing that researchers are working on a vaccine against the four serotypes of the disease, we must not slacken our efforts to wipe out the striped mosquitoes that bring pain and suffering to so many children and adults.
The US Centers for Disease Control has described dengue as being the "most important mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans", with an estimated 2.5 billion people at risk worldwide per year.
Public awareness campaigns are essential to alert the public on how best to prevent this potentially fatal illness and the importance of eradicating mosquito-breeding areas such as old tyres, flower pots and stagnant pools, especially on construction sites. Our cooperation is vital. This is one big problem we cannot expect government agencies to solve all by themselves.
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An old thread but a reoccurring issue each year, and the time is now as the rainy season starts. A real serious issue if you have young children in your household.
Over here in Rayong my wife went to the government health office in our town. Each and every town of medium size has one. She found out that they offer neighborhood fogging for mosquitos. This substance does not disappear once the fog disperses, but leaves a residual on foliage, grass, standing water etc for a week or more, depending upon how hard it may rain after the treatment. In the process it kills enough larvae to significantly reduce the mosquito population for months, so they say.
Today they're doing the entire neighborhood, more than 20 houses for 600 Baht total. Can't beat that.
If interested I'm sure HH has the same and perhaps some can organize a neighborhood spray. Pete
Over here in Rayong my wife went to the government health office in our town. Each and every town of medium size has one. She found out that they offer neighborhood fogging for mosquitos. This substance does not disappear once the fog disperses, but leaves a residual on foliage, grass, standing water etc for a week or more, depending upon how hard it may rain after the treatment. In the process it kills enough larvae to significantly reduce the mosquito population for months, so they say.
Today they're doing the entire neighborhood, more than 20 houses for 600 Baht total. Can't beat that.
If interested I'm sure HH has the same and perhaps some can organize a neighborhood spray. Pete
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The tessabahn used to come round and do all the drains with some fog/smoke treatment every year. They came down our soi which is a little way out of the town centre but I'm not sure how far out they went. That was free.
Havn't noticed them doing it for the past two years though. I might have just missed it, however.
Havn't noticed them doing it for the past two years though. I might have just missed it, however.
Not good news here from a place not that far away. Pete
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Resistance to malaria drug growing, experts warn
David Batty
guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 May 2009 18.53 BST
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Growing resistance to the world's most effective drug treatment for malaria in Cambodia is a development that could threaten the lives of millions of people, scientists warned today.
Malaria experts said that the problem in Cambodia must be contained as there were no other effective drug treatments available. The drugs are now taking up to four or five days to clear all malaria parasites from the blood rather than two or three days, according to the UK study by the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
Dr Glenn McConkey, a malaria expert at Leeds university, said: "This could be a major threat in terms of drug resistance."
He said there was a danger that the prevalence of resistance to artemesinin could become as widespread as that to chloroquine, which used to be the mainstay of drug treatment.
"It's a matter of time before resistance to artemesinin in widespread. The concern is that it will spread before we can develop a new drug to replace it," said McConkey.
Professor Brian Greenwood, professor of tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said resistance to the drug was at present only partial and patients should still be cured if they took artemisinins in combination with another antimalarial, as recommended by the World Health Organisation.
He said that Cambodian pharmacies were supplying patients with artemisnin alone, or flawed courses of the drug were sold that did not contain enough active ingredients to kill the malaria parasite.
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Resistance to malaria drug growing, experts warn
David Batty
guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 May 2009 18.53 BST
Article history
Growing resistance to the world's most effective drug treatment for malaria in Cambodia is a development that could threaten the lives of millions of people, scientists warned today.
Malaria experts said that the problem in Cambodia must be contained as there were no other effective drug treatments available. The drugs are now taking up to four or five days to clear all malaria parasites from the blood rather than two or three days, according to the UK study by the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
Dr Glenn McConkey, a malaria expert at Leeds university, said: "This could be a major threat in terms of drug resistance."
He said there was a danger that the prevalence of resistance to artemesinin could become as widespread as that to chloroquine, which used to be the mainstay of drug treatment.
"It's a matter of time before resistance to artemesinin in widespread. The concern is that it will spread before we can develop a new drug to replace it," said McConkey.
Professor Brian Greenwood, professor of tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said resistance to the drug was at present only partial and patients should still be cured if they took artemisinins in combination with another antimalarial, as recommended by the World Health Organisation.
He said that Cambodian pharmacies were supplying patients with artemisnin alone, or flawed courses of the drug were sold that did not contain enough active ingredients to kill the malaria parasite.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source