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Lorry

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  1. The French embassy used to have a list of donors. If I remember correctly, the person who updated the list was Louise. This information is more than 10 years old, I will try to get more information tomorrow.
  2. I asked them 2 days ago, they still do PSA without seeing a doctor
  3. He served 20 years in prison in India and 19 years in prison in Nepal. That's 39 years in prison.
  4. In the blog quoted by OP, they recommend SBET if you cannot have your blood checked within 12-24 hours. There is no place like this in Thailand. Maybe some extremely remote Islands in Indonesia or the Philippines, maybe somewhere in Myanmar. Even in Laos its hard to think of a place like this. Having said that, SBET is easily available in Europe. Many European tourists here carry a pack of Malarone (for a beach holiday in Phuket!), completely unnecessary and potentially dangerous.
  5. Hb 13.5 is nothing to worry about. I think in my lifetime I have only once had a Hb higher than that. Eosinophils 7.2 is unusual. I had this once. Yes, I did worry about worms. At the next CBC it had disappeared. A single unusual lab value doesn't make you sick. You can check it again in a month if it worries you. More important: Do you have any symptoms? If no, then you are a good example that shows why "annual health checks" for 31 year-olds are useless screening.
  6. Not necessarily. You have had 5 exposures to COVID-19 antigens, that's pretty good. AZ gives longer lasting protection than mRNA. Infection, too. I am in a similar situation, my last antigen exposure (it was an infection) was in February (I also had AZ). So I had my antibodies measured (quantitative test can be done at Camillian Hospital, 900 B; I also wanted the neutralizing antibodies tested, they did both tests at Vejthani Hospital for 2500). The test results showed that I have very good protection. I talked with their infectious disease doctor. He explained to me, that I have very good protection (yes, I knew this from the test results already). So I asked him whether I need one more shot right now. He said yes, because according to the (American) CDC everybody needs 3 mRNA shots. I had only 2. I found this answer not convincing for 2 reasons: AZ has never been available in the US, how can you just ignore the AZ I had? Second, I cannot think of any rich country that handled Covid19 worse than the US (maybe Russia?), look at the death toll, look at their inability to provide masks or tests for their people. I would completely ignore what the American CDC says. I am a firm believer in vaccines. But I don't want one every 6 months for years to come. Numbers here are stil relatively low. I practice social distancing, wear a mask, have easy access to good treatment, and I don't mingle with the tourist crowds. But in spring I have to go to 2 countries with much higher case numbers, where people don't practice social distancing. I have to fly there, flying seems to be a very high risk activity. So I will get my next shot 4 weeks before my first flight.
  7. I didn't say that i myself have been refused emergency care lots of times. I think my post was detailed enough. And before you say it's hear-say: no, it's not
  8. I did ask both and several others. Moderna is not available.
  9. I thought BPH has only private (maybe semi- private) rooms?
  10. What exactly is emergency care? Put you in a gurney and give you an iv drip, no medication? Almost any hospital will do this. Cost: couple of hundred baht. Give you paracetamol? Yes, they will do this. Cost: 10B Do an X-ray? Probably. Cost: less than 1000 If they see that you need a CT scan? Cost maybe 10000? They will rarely do this. They want the money first. If you need emergency surgery, like brain surgery because you have increased intracranial pressure, or a heart catheterization because you have a heart attack? Rarely will they do this without seeing the money first. They will not let you die on their door steps. They will transfer you to a government hospital before you die once it's clear you can't cough up the money NOW. If you don't survive the transport that's your problem. So, yes, emergency care is refused regularly. And, yes, I am speaking from personal experience with lots of cases, not just 2 or 3.
  11. To get the yellow book you will learn that it is possible (and necessary) to translate a foreign passport into Thai (so if your place of birth is Dnjepropetrowsk, this will be translated into Thai). They will translate your name, too, into some pseudo-Thai gibberish. The passport you used to enter the country obviously doesn't prove anything. You will also need Thai witnesses who prove you are who you pretend to be. A girlfriend from the internet will do, but must be Thai. No Filipina, please. That's real proof in Thailand.
  12. What I have seen was even more than 10% And some of them get actually quite sick, lying in their hotel bed for a week or two or three. Foreigners don't do masks, hand washing or ATK
  13. https://takeda.info/3P5Pu8t Takeda says Qdenga can be used for people over 60 y.o. But they also write (section 4.4): "There are no data on the use of Qdenga in subjects above 60 years of age" Dengue in old patients is quite debilitating and dangerous.
  14. You cannot stop them, because they are many and you are alone. It would probably illegal if they force you to let them on your property. I have heard sometimes illegal things happen in Thailand, but I can't really believe it
  15. It didn't for me
  16. Immigration, correctly Immigration Police, is part of the Royal Thai Police. I do not want to be visited by the police in my home, not in any country.
  17. They failed
  18. That's Ofloxacin, not quite the same as Moxifloxacin
  19. The updated versions are not available in Thailand. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna. Don't worry too much about it, they aren't much better than the original versions. It seems that Moderna isn't available in Thailand at the moment. So Kwasaki's answer was spot-on
  20. It's 120b per tablet, 600 for a box of 5. That's about the price of some flashy colorful multivitamin cræp, the stuff Thais and Americans love to buy. But you are right, Amoxi is a lot cheaper.
  21. Thaitravelclinic offers Imojev, too (for the aforesaid price of 478). I have never seen it crowded (maybe because of covid)
  22. Moxifloxacin is available in Thailand only as Avelox. Many drugstores will know "Avelox", hardly any know "Moxifloxacin"
  23. I needed Avelox (a common antibiotic). Surprisingly, it's not available in Surin. So I tried online: bangkokdrugstore.com (I have used them many times, always satisfied): no answer to my email, phone not answered medtide: 2 very different websites, one more confusing than the other; very quick answer in Line: not available fascino online: website says closed idrugs: website says closed S.C. pharmacy: told me on the phone to order in Line, in Line they needed 5 hours to tell me it's not available A friend in Bangkok just bought it for me in the nearest pharmacy and sent it by Kerry.
  24. Trust me,I am quite sure it was mentioned. Not necessarily in this thread, I didn't care when I read it, because it doesn't affect me
  25. I remember reading about it on TV. I think it was in this thread https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://aseannow.com/topic/1279298-home-immigration-checks-may-be-on-the-uptick/&ved=2ahUKEwjQxNDFnv77AhXtTWwGHeiGB08QFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw22y3qLcyBFoyNWwA7RRHVO A home visit from immigration is threatening and humiliating. OP is quite right to be freaked out. It gives you an idea in what kind of country you live.
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