Krabi finds 6 rabies-infected dogs

[webfact]

Krabi finds 6 rabies-infected dogs

When the virus gets into the body, the symptom can sometimes take a while to develop.

By Tim Newton

 

 

 

Krabi Provincial Public Health Office have announced a warning to local residents after finding 6 dogs with rabies infection yesterday (March 20). Officials are reminding all people that if they are bitten, scratched or licked by stray dog or cat, to seek medical attention and get a rabies PEP vaccine.

 

The Chief of Krabi Provincial Public Health Office, Dr. Apichai Limanon, said that the rabies situation in Krabi deserves attention because after checking 10 suspected dogs from 2017 – 2018 from Lamtab District, 6 of them are rabies-infected and there are at least 13 people who have had direct contact with these dogs. They people are being monitored and have received the rabies PEP.

 

“Many people have misconception about rabies. Many of them think that rabies is curable so whenever they get a minor bite or are scratched or their open wound is touched by dog / cat saliva, they don’t clean the wound properly and then don’t go to hospital to receive the vaccine.

 

Full story: https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/krabi-finds-6-rabies-infected-dogs

 

-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2018-03-21

[Thian]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Krabi Provincial Public Health Office have announced a warning to local residents after finding 6 dogs with rabies infection yesterda

Why not warn the tourists as well, while they're still home of course and can easy change their holidaydestination.?

[harada]

55 minutes ago, Thian said:

Why not warn the tourists as well, while they're still home of course and can easy change their holidaydestination.?

Baht

[mercman24]

i bet the soi dogs lot will be along in a moment,  with a bullshit defence, (and this on a small island), until one of them gets licked by their pet cat/dog

[humbug]

more than 12 people died in one road accident yesterday in Thailand. 27,000 people die of road accidents in Thailand in one year and 6 people die of rabies in one year. 

The whole rabies scare is nonsense but feeds into the humans who want to kill

everything in life like a few posters on this forum

[jak2002003]

9 minutes ago, humbug said:

more than 12 people died in one road accident yesterday in Thailand. 27,000 people die of road accidents in Thailand in one year and 6 people die of rabies in one year. 

The whole rabies scare is nonsense but feeds into the humans who want to kill

everything in life like a few posters on this forum

?

We are not saying we have to choose between road deaths or getting rabies!   It's not one or the other.

 

Are you saying to ignore rabies and allow it to spread until road deaths are stopped?!

 

'The whole rabies scare is nonsense'...  tell that to the families of the rabies victims here.  Tell that to the people bitten by dogs and who have to then go and spend money at the hospital for the anti rabies series of injections.  

 

 

 

 

[farcanell]

6 hours ago, humbug said:

more than 12 people died in one road accident yesterday in Thailand. 27,000 people die of road accidents in Thailand in one year and 6 people die of rabies in one year. 

The whole rabies scare is nonsense but feeds into the humans who want to kill

everything in life like a few posters on this forum

Great point!

 

for anyone unsure of humbugs reasoning, let me reinforce his thinking

 

with 27000 road deaths, verses 2500 murders a year in Thailand, the police shouldn’t bother chasing murderers.

 

makes perfect sense, right?

Edited March 22, 2018 by farcanell

[sanuk21]

21 hours ago, mercman24 said:

i bet the soi dogs lot will be along in a moment,  with a bullshit defence, (and this on a small island), until one of them gets licked by their pet cat/dog

Didn't realise Krabi was an island  

Edited March 22, 2018 by sanuk21

[oldlakey]

9 hours ago, humbug said:

more than 12 people died in one road accident yesterday in Thailand. 27,000 people die of road accidents in Thailand in one year and 6 people die of rabies in one year. 

The whole rabies scare is nonsense but feeds into the humans who want to kill

everything in life like a few posters on this forum

You need to broaden your mind a little bit at least, and then maybe you will be capable of critical and logical thinking

Edited March 22, 2018 by oldlakey