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2 hours ago, maddermax said:

a flu bug on the flight from Perth to Singapore which ruined their UK holiday and knocked them back for 3 weeks. They are still on antibiotice since returning to Perth.

Flu is a VIRUS......antibiotics will do nothing! 

4 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Wonder what they may have eaten at the resort.

Hard to think the parasites would survive high cooking temp of the pad Thai. 

Always eat street food, high temp cooking, fresh, never stuff that prepared and sitting out though.

Only time sick from food in Thailand was from the restaurant in 5 star hotel

 

 

Come on.....that's not the right thought process.

Pad thai is served with raw beansprouts and veggies ..... There is also how plates and eating apparati are used.

However it is still inexplicable how they singled out tis one meal.

31 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I've had it once in 20 years. Be ccarefulrareful about what you eat and where you eat. Always eat in busy restaurants - Thais know where the good and cheap food it. They can get sick also. Best bet is to cook your own food. 

Had what???? - It seems people are ignoring the main point of this story.... IT IS NOT A BACTERIAL FIRM OF FOOD POISONING.

The family appear to have contracted Dientamoeba fragilis, an amoeba-like PARASITE.

It has to be ingested but it is NOT TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS.

Most people who get "food poisoning" have a bacterial infection that may or may nit be gotten from food, just as likely from their own self through hand to mouth contact.

These infections can take SEVERAL DAYS to manifest themselves, a fact which many ignore, preferring just to blame the last thing they ate.

It is aldo highly questionable how the OP family decided on that one particular meal as the source of their infection

Samui's current problems are largely in common with the rest of the kingdom but are exacerbated by 2 factors which inturn are, not unique to the island.

They are product and over capacity.

Samui is destroying the natural resources that initially attracted visitors

And secondly thanks to untrammelled development their is rampant over-capacity in all ranges of accommodation.

A third factor that is unique to Samui is the monopoly stranglehold that Bangkok Airways have on air access to the island ....... quite simply, the price is putting visitors off. ... and there is no way out of this predicament so long as the one man controls it.

13 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:

For Australian government web sit. 

Dientamoeba fragilis (D. fragilis) is a single-celled parasite. It is not known for certain whether D. fragilis causes illness or not. D. fragilis is commonly found in faeces, both of people who are well and in people who have diarrhoea or other intestinal symptoms.

 

Most parasitologists would say it causes little or no ill effect. It is a clue for hygiene issues because it spreads mostly through the fecal oral route. It doesn't form cysts or other resistive stages. There is evidence that it be carried by pinworms. 

Finding intestional parasites is a special skill not available in many 1st world hospital labs. A university hospital would be a better bet.   

Just as likely contracted through the family's own self contamination.

5 minutes ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Diagnosing a new case of D. fragilis is extremely difficult and time consuming.

No it, isnt, Diagnosis now is made by examination or PCR testing of a faecal specimen.

The problem is that doctors involved did not consider this possibility as a part of the diagnosis process.

21 hours ago, webfact said:

After repeated visits to the doctor to try and establish what was wrong with them, tests revealed that they had contracted Dientamoeba Fragilis, a dangerous parasite, which they claim was caught from the Pad Thai dish they had eaten at a food court in Thailand.

If this is the premise they are basing this story on, it is laughable.

One has to ask how they decided it was ingested through this food and also why Australian doctors took so long to diagnose this curable disease.

Immigration is not a problem...it is those who fear it and those who twist it to suit their own agenda who are the problem.

Brexit will not change immigration as it is governed by international laws.

One wave of immigrants it will cause will be elderly expats from Spain who suddenly find themselves without access to pension or healthcare.

Apart from them can anyone cite people living in the EU who plan to move to UK because they think Brexit is such a good idea?

14 hours ago, Dene16 said:

350,000 new migrants + entering the country every year

More babies being born by migrants than uk nationals in many parts of the country

So in ten years time around another 4 million + non nationals to cripple an already failing NHS, schools, housing

 

Damage to the country is nothing compared to what it would of been for our children

s someone has already said remainers all seem to have a personal reason for their decision with no real thought to the consequences in the future

Possibly the most facile and ill-infirmed post on the whole thread

10 hours ago, vogie said:

And most have their own self interests at heart and not the countrys. You just wouldn't believe some of the reasons why remainers don't want to leave the undemocratic EU. Here are but a few:

They already live in mainland Europe and think it may alter their lifestyle.

Some think it might take them longer to get through passport control.

Some have portfolios that have may taken a dip.

They come out with expressions like it will affect the younger generation, when reall they don't know, it will probably affect the younger generation for the better.

Lots of old people that voted leave are now dead.

Only 27% of the population voted to leave, it's not the will of the people.

Referendums are just a stupid way to decide things, unless it their way of course, then suddenly they become the best thing since sliced bread.

Anyway I'm sure you get my drift.

You might want to read what you've just posted....I'm thinking it might go viral on remain sites..

On 7/5/2019 at 1:11 PM, CanterbrigianBangkoker said:

Wow! And you have the nerve to say I'm misiniformed about the Fishing industry in the UK! INCREDIBLE.

 

'One of the min charateisitics of Brexitism is conservatism' and I think we've all found that the main characteristic of Remainerism is gullibility and self loathing, you prove my point nicely.

QED

2 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

Not at all IMO.

 

I suspect the annoyance amongst the leavers is that any possible 'good' news is barely reported?

 

Not that it matters.  Only those with crystal balls and the like should make any attempt to predict the future. ????

 

The 'expert' economists have tried, and failed, for decades.  But of course anyone who prefers their 'crystal ball gazing' will agree with them when they agree with their opinion, despite their conspicuous failure previously.....

 

Much like polls.....

I think you should read up on reporting bias......no I don't mean th perceived bias of one soide or the other about having their opinionated, I mean the scientifically proven bias against reporting "bad" news........... this has resulted in lesssthat 5% of medical papers eve reporting that there is no benefits to be found in a particular therapy. If you apply this to Brexit you find an almost total absence from the Brexit camp of reports as there are in reality NO "good" reports about Brexit, only bad ones.

19 hours ago, nauseus said:

I didn't know you were there!

So this is a Brexiteer's perspective on history? If you weren't there it didn't happen?

8 hours ago, evadgib said:

Here's one in colour taken today:

 

The resemblance with 1933 is uncanny.

Brexiteers turning their backs? .... Oh no, this is the Nazis....if it walks, looks and quacks..........

2 hours ago, Dene16 said:

Google search, nothing

I'm sure, if  true, it would of been all over the national papers long ago

It was and we all know of Boris's pro Brexit article he wrote in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/16/secret-boris-johnson-column-favoured-uk-remaining-in-eu

Try and learn the difference between search and research

On 6/22/2019 at 8:16 PM, Birdman said:

There are years with more tourists, years with less, years with more ...

actually there are very few years with LESS - they may plateau but the inexorable trend is for ever up. 

te apparent dips ae largely just perception through the eyes of Westerners who are not aware of other parts of the tourist market.

On 6/19/2019 at 2:28 PM, Samui Bodoh said:

The number of motorcycles un-rented seemed much higher this year; I started paying attention to them as I drove about, and this year there were always more on display than I remember. 

Personal observation is a very dodgy way of assessing things like tourism figures........ and this OP seems to have got the wrong end of the stick on just about everything.....as an example is the very questionable interpretation of th numbers of motorcycles...hs it not occurred to him/her that this illusion be actually be due to an increase in the number of vehicles available - Samui is in fact suffering from over supply in many areas - long-term rental, new building 4 & % star rooms all are in excess of requirements.

What happens on Samui is actually repeated throughout the country; unregulated unplanned and unreasearched development just continues headless of accurate market/business forecasts and so the islands natural resources ae gradually replaced with a more urban hotel/resort based economy with all tyhr concomitant traffic, pollution and degradation of the islands original appeal.

this however does not mean a reduction in customers (guests) as although many European and western visitors may dip slightly in numbers, China now accounts for one third of ALL tourist to Thailand.....and NO! they are not all low spenders at all........ They are big money and a growing market. unfortunately in Western eyes, much of what thy see as essential for a vacation is not in line with western perceptions. Thy require a much more urban "laid-on" or even artificial experience.......some the Thai entrepreneurs are much more in tune with then westerners.

Boris wants to be PM..... what of and even for how long isn't important....he hasn't even considered how he will go down in history..... He just wants to be PM.

SO disaster or not he will  have got his goal.......probably turn out he has termial cancer and this is just his bucket list......

13 hours ago, Loiner said:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1144557/Brexit-Party-reveals-it-will-legally-challenge-Peterborough-by-election

Brexit party lost...perhaps they should get over it?