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Another high quality taxi driver on display.

Air India has a well deserved, negative reputation. It should not be part of *Alliance .

You can edit it if you are serious.

Please educate yourself. Very different models of infection and at risk people. Tomato flu aka Hand, mouth foot disease is a manageable viral infection caused by Coxsackievirus A-6 and A-16 of the enterovirus group. It is most likely in children age 5 and under. It infects tens of thousands in Thailand. It is a predictable annual seasonal epidemic that spikes in June, July and August. It is most severe and frequent in Bangkok, and less severe in provinces with lower population density. It is an expensive illness because of the toll it places on families. MPox aka Monkey pox Monkeypox is caused by monkeypox virus of the genus an Orthopoxvirus. This a disease that was initially imported from Africa, most likely by Europeans. The initial western outbreaks were traced back to raves and sex fetish events in Spain and Germany. Visitors to these events brought the disease back to their homelands and from there to Thailand. The western quick response was instrumental in containing a pandemic and the vaccination of at risk individuals acted to slow and in some countries stop the spread of disease. Unfortunately, enough infected westerners entered Thailand and had intimate relations with Thais, most likely sex workers, to result in 800+ infections as of August 2024. It was being managed through vaccinations of at risk Thais. It all changed last August when the new deadly Clade Ib strain of the virus appeared in Thailand. The carrier was a European who had arrived in Thailand on August 14th on a flight from the Middle East, but his journey had originated in Central Africa. Fortunately, he was quarantined and all of his Thai contacts tested negative. (Whether the Gulf based airline informed its at risk passengers is uncertain.) The quick and well directed intervention by the MoH protected Thailand's national health security and helped prevent a national catastrophe. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2859542/first-case-of-new-mpox-variant-recovers. Thailand then took further steps to protect its people by adding a screening requirement for the disease for the countries already on its Yellow fever screening list. Thailand's response was textbook near perfect and deserves praise. Most critics of public health and Thais in this forum are oblivious to how close Thailand came to a health catastrophe that could have destroyed tourism for 2024 and created a real fear of foreigners. Thailand's response to a possible norovirus outbreak can be expected to be no less top quality. I would expect that the MoH is first investigating. It is often difficult to quickly differentiate between the standard food poisoning that we can all get vs. a norovirus infection. I prefer to let the quiet, non headline chasing health professionals at the MoH do their job and am confident that they will respond appropriately.

Why would you need links for events that are widely reported. The number is now 3 cruise ships and 300+ passengers & crew. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-12-20/norovirus-sickens-hundreds-on-three-cruise-ships-cdc The reason why cruise ships infectious illness outbreaks are known is because they are now reportable. Previously, such occurrences did not have to be made public. We can thank the US CDC for requiring that level of disclosure. The Cruise industry has tried for years to have the reporting requirement reversed. These outbreaks are not spontaneous. They occur because infected people board the cruise ships and infect people. In most cases, the passengers know that they are sick, but still board anyway. Many infectious diseases are imported to a geographic zone by foreigners. This is a known fact and it happens whenever a domestic population is "disrupted" by foreign agents. Covid as a mass infection was first identified in the Koh Samui area and was prevalent amongst the European tourists who were visiting Thailand. They in turn infected other Europeans who brought the disease back to their homelands. The local Thai service industry staff, who were infected, carried the disease to their home areas. A more brutal illustration was the 2013 cholera outbreak in Haiti. Nepalese UN personnel were cholera carriers and their sewage waste contaminated the community where they were billeted. Because an illness is not reported or is under reported does not mean that it does not exist or is not present. We are currently seeing a resurgence of Covid infections, Flu and RSV. in western nations. The infections will be transported to vacation destinations by infected visitors.

Indian or Middle Easten?

Tell that to the 2 Holland American cruiseships and the hundreds of passengers vomiting and crapping their pants.

Google what? The new cabinet is in place and Freeland will be forgotten in a month. You forget how only a few short months ago there were demands for her to resign.

You seriously expect anyone of intelligence to accept the claims of the Hindustan Times? It is aligned with PM Modi, the Indian who authorized assassinations and spying in Canada. India has an ongoing dispute with Canada that includes India's shielding of scam call centers, organized crime groups and political intimidation.

It is not the most prestigious. It has a political agenda just as the right wing newspapers in Israel do.

I am.

Full responsibility rests with airline. It also violated safety protocols. This was Air Asia, the airline with a poor service reputation. Next time you are considering flying this airline, don't.

It requires administrative and regulatory filings. There is a good reason why banks around the world do not offer tourist bank accounts,

A considerable contribution to benefiting the public.

That's a list of washed up nobodies from the 1980's. Becker - bankrupt criminal. White- a successful snooker player, but hardly notable aside from his taking up with a young lady nearly 1/2 his age. I suppose it plays well with the Pattaya crowd. Van Damme - he would have been in his coke head phase when visiting Thailand. Great endorsement. Jimmy Page -Another druggie, and while a hero to people from the 60's and 70's, no one under the age of 40 knows of him. Unreasonable demand. Thailand has enough problems with money laundering. Try opening a bank account in western and north asian countries. Few banks will allow it and when they do, there are tax id numbers or visas required.