Measles claim six in Yala

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Measles claim six in Yala

 

 

YALA, 17th October 2018 (NNT) - Local media has reported that measles has already infected nearly 500 patients and claimed six lives in eight districts of the southern province of Yala. The Provincial Public Health Office has erected an emergency center to combat the virus. 

A number of residents in Sateng Nok Sub-district have been bringing in their children aged between 9 months - 2 and a half years, to receive measles vaccines at the local health center and hospital, following the spread of the virus. 

According to the head of the Provincial Public Health Office, the virus had infected a total of 495 patients from September 1st to 15 October and six of the patients have succumbed to the disease. He said Yaha District has been hit the hardest, with 127 cases. He added that an emergency operation center (EOC) has been established to handle the situation.

 

According to the office chief, the agency intends to seek out all patients and give them vaccinations in time, in order to stop the number of infected growing and deaths occuring. It is also the center’s objective to prevent the spread of the virus in hospitals and public health centers. 

Parents are strongly advised to have their children vaccinated as soon as they exhibit symptoms which include having a high fever, coughing, rashes, and pinkeye. The patients should also be quarantined for at least a week.

 

-- nnt 2018-10-17

[bremonts]

<Parents are strongly advised to have their children vaccinated as soon as they exhibit symptoms>
too late isn't, if not counter productive... just my common sense guess

[keith101]

This is what happens when people don't vaccinate against these types of diseases and children should be vaccinated before they show symptoms because once they show its to late . Most Western countries have all of this in place as the after a baby is born and growing up but TIT .

[nausea]

I wonder about the age of the victims. I'm no expert but I had measles when I was a kid and it was uncomfortable but not life threatening. Just an excuse to take time off school really. Certainly no-one seemed to be very worried about it. I always understood the real problem was with adults, who've neither been vaccinated nor gained natural immunity through childhood exposure.

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[TimCal]

Sadly Nausea you are.so wrong. 1in20 young ones are admitted to hospital. 1 in 100 will have permanent damage. Some will die. Many will.exhibit long term physical.sequelae. The only way to stop this is vaccination of at least 95%. 

[Lupatria]

I fear there will be many more retarded kids around next year.

[thenewgoo]

Having brought up a child in Thailand, I was always surprised at the cost of vaccinations. I did wonder how the average Thai family, or more relevant the below average Thai family, could afford such jabs. If such vacs are not affordable for the majority of Thai families then such endemics can be expected. 

[happy chappie]

So it's spreading like the plague.i think you could inoculate the whole population for many different deseases for the price of a sub and still have enough to fill a few trucks.i think with the non existent hygiene and ignorance of a third world country we haven't heard the last of it.

Edited October 17, 2018 by happy chappie

[Stargeezr]

Third World country, enough said!

[sanemax]

42 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Third World country, enough said!

This is nothing to do with the status of Thailand , its about some people refusing to allow their Children to be vaccinated on Religious grounds 

[Stargeezr]

Well  the south of Thailands religion does not believe in needles, too bad.

 Sorry to hear that a lot more children may die.

Geezer

[JohnDyson]

How many died from measles in the 1980s before vaccine?

 

 

[JohnDyson]

15 hours ago, TimCal said:

Sadly Nausea you are.so wrong. 1in20 young ones are admitted to hospital. 1 in 100 will have permanent damage. Some will die. Many will.exhibit long term physical.sequelae. The only way to stop this is vaccination of at least 95%. 

Is that due to weak immune systems?

 

 

[suzannegoh]

30 minutes ago, JohnDyson said:

How many died from measles in the 1980s before vaccine?

 

 

The MMR vaccine came later but the first measles vaccine was rolled out in the 1960’s.  Prior to vaccination 400 to 500 deaths from measles occurred annually in the US.  A larger number had complication from the disease other than death.  It’s a small minority of cases that are life threatening but it’s so contagious that in the absence of a vaccine just about everyone would contract the disease.

[suzannegoh]

17 minutes ago, JohnDyson said:

Is that due to weak immune systems?

 

 

The standard anti-vax line is that it's caused by sanitary conditions and that infection rates of various diseases went down not because of vaccines but because sanitary conditions improved during the period of time in which vaccines were introduced.  Is that where you're coming from?

[JohnDyson]

5 minutes ago, suzannegoh said:

The standard anti-vax line is that it's caused by sanitary conditions and that infection rates of various diseases went down not because of vaccines but because sanitary conditions improved during the period of time in which vaccines were introduced.  Is that where you're coming from?

No, just wondering whether people are dieing more from diseases now or not.

 

I'm not anti drug, just interested in the statistics cause pro drug people try to push drugs onto people all the time.

[JohnDyson]

https://vaxopedia.org/2018/04/15/when-was-the-last-measles-death-in-the-united-states/

 

Interesting statistics from 1900. No doubt vaccine has saved some lives but not nearly as much as the drug companies claim.

 

Given the data other factors have actually saved more lives.

[rickudon]

Vaccination prevents measles epidemics. The death rate is proportional to how many catch the disease. I do not think vaccination is much of an issue in Thailand, my daughter from birth had a book to record vaccinations. Ours were done privately, but wife said they do come to the village about once a year to do child vaccinations for free. But you still have to turn up for them ....

 

As said, might be a Muslim thing down south. But they come running for them when people start dying!