People Warned of Plasmodium Knowlesi Malaria

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, May 6 (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned people to protect themselves from Plasmodium knowlesi malaria and advised people to see a doctor if they developed symptoms after staying close to a monkey or returning from a forest.

 

Government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said that the prime minister issued the warning out of his public health concern because thunderstorms in many areas could increase the number of the mosquitoes that carried diseases, especially Plasmodium knowlesi malaria.

 

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The malaria parasite could be transmitted by anopheles mosquitoes from monkeys to humans.

 

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[IAMHERE]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

after staying close to a monkey

Geez, wouldn't staying close really be within the distance a mosquito can fly ?

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned people to protect themselves from Plasmodium knowlesi malaria and advised people to see a doctor if they developed symptoms after staying close to a monkey or returning from a forest

He does realise mosquitoes can fly?

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

He does realise mosquitoes can fly?

Not far and the closer the distance, the greater the chances of infection. The advice is very sound.

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

He does realise mosquitoes can fly?

Does he also know that only the female bites you? So leave the one with little penises alone.

[internationalism]

malaria is only endemic in forested border areas, and only some 3500 infections per year causing a small percentage of deaths. In 2019 there were only 13 cases of death. There are many different readily available medicines (including for prophylactic).

this knowlesi strain of malaria is a new one, which emerged only within the last 20 years. It jumped from macaques and is the least widespread, the least dangerous.

 

Much more larger is scale is denque, with some 70k yearly infections in highly populated areas. With some 50 deaths per year. There are no any medicines to treat it, only once to control symptoms. Dengvaxia vaccination is is available from 2017 but almost unknown to the wider population, because of high price.

 

Both illnesses are spread by different mosquito - dengue is spread daytime by a small aedes aegypty.

 

I understand he is covid czar for the last year, but why he has to comment on health issues, even as marginal one, as that of knowlesi. As if he didn't bother of so many very serious and tragic health, social and economic issues

Edited May 7, 2022 by internationalism

[Cake Monster]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

BANGKOK, May 6 (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned people to protect themselves from Plasmodium knowlesi malaria and advised people to see a doctor if they developed symptoms after staying close to a monkey or returning from a forest.

Surely, in the present climate of Covid and out of control Inflation, this Clown has better things to do than be concerned for the Publics Welfare over a few Mozzy Bites.

I always thought that these kind of statements were made by Health Ministers.

Maybe the Guy that should be making the statement cannot even be trusted to do this correctly

[Rimmer]

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[Sheryl]

it takes a specific type of mosquito to spread this -- one found only in dense forest.

 

The only monkey connection is that monkeys can also be infected with it. Not that being near a monkey per se puts you at risk.

 

 

[internationalism]

Sheryl, I think it's more to do with malaria, than with specific mosquito (there are several mosquito species which can transmit) or deep forest.

As malaria is eradicated (medicines, insecticides) first in urban areas, central provinces, it still remains on the country edges of mountainous forested areas (that includes some 4 thousand villages), also crossing from neighbouring countries, where malaria is less controlled.

In Africa malaria can still be in towns, they use impregnated mosquito nets within rooms, spraying walls with insecticide.

Malaria in thailand in not like a similarly transmitted dengue. For dengue there are no any medicines for treatment or prevention, so it remains. Insecticides against dengue mosquito seems like not good enough. When the amphur sprays my soi (that includes after dengue and zika cases), mosquito are not killed. Looks, like they are no affected, the next day as many, as before.

 

 

[Eleftheros]

Malaria is not so nice, but Dengue is very bad, also because there is not a readily available effective and safe vaccine.

 

There was a big scandal in the Philippines a few years ago, because it was found that the vaccine used, Dengvaxia, actually made things worse through a mechanism called 'antibody-dependent enhancement'.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy

 

Vaccines are very powerful things, and so need to be created and distributed with great care.

 

[internationalism]

dengvaxia is effective and safe and is the only vax available around the world, including thailand, european union and the USA.

philippines Duterte politicised this vax to use against an opposition, which government approved vax program for kids in endemic areas and for cops.

This vax suppose to be used for kids over 9 and for adults up to 45 years. For foreigners who lived in tropics for 9 years or had already infection. 

Dengue is not worse than malaria -it's 85% asymptomatic, 10% medical care, 5% hospitalisation. Mortality around 1/1000 (for malaria in thailand mortality is higher, judging by statistic from 2019, 4/1000).

Dengue spreads in highly populated areas (mainly by kids who got infected at schools, sport grounds etc), and because of it's large scale it's more dangerous now, than malaria