Measures Stepped Up to Prevent Monkeypox Outbreak

[webfact]

 

by Paul Rujopakarn

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - Additional screening measures are now in place for visitors traveling from countries where monkeypox has been reported.

 

According to the Department of Disease Control (DDC), travelers must now fill out and present a health declaration card upon arriving in Thailand. The card, which contains a QR code, allows officials to keep track of each passenger and provide appropriate medical care in the event of an emergency.

 

The DDC has established an emergency operations center (EOC) to monitor the spread of monkeypox and instructed related units to be vigilant for travelers from Central and West Africa, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal, where the virus has been detected.

 

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According to DDC officials, any visitors exhibiting signs of illness will be transferred to the nearest hospital for testing.

 

Dr Chakkarat Pitayowonganon, director of the department’s epidemiology division, said the EOC will assist in screening tourists who may have been exposed to the virus. He explained that during the incubation period, infected individuals may not exhibit visible symptoms such as rashes and raised spots that transform into blisters and scabs.

 

Monkeypox symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pains, backache, swollen glands, chills and fatigue. They also resemble those of smallpox, although the symptoms are typically less severe.

 

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2022-05-24

 

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[Tropicalevo]

Just what we did not need. An excuse for the CCSA dictators to stay in power.

Sorry.

Masks forever.

Thailand pass forever.

Monkeypox testing with quarantine etc etc etc.

Plague number two? Five more to go?

[timendres]

In the US in 2003, people were getting monkey pox by playing with their prairie dogs.

I thought playing with your prairie dog was how you avoided getting a disease.

   (credit: Greg Garraldo)

[mommysboy]

Sounds like a recipe for disaster!  It's not that public health measures aren't useful but they often seem to produce chaos, confusion, and tend to be rather lax or alternately utterly draconian, especially in Thailand. Monkeypox appears to be relatively easy to control, mild in nature,  and in effect is less contagious than measles.  I hope this doesn't get the covid treatment.

[huangnon]

"Measures stepped up to promote fear, paranoia, and keep emergency decrees in place". There's your headline.

[onthedarkside]

A misinformation post has been removed.

 

[Rimmer]

A misleading general flame/troll post has been removed

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

US CDC on Monkeypox:

 

Transmission

"Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets. Respiratory droplets generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact is required.

 

Other human-to-human methods of transmission include direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, and indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated clothing or linens."

 

Prevention

"JYNNEOS^TM  (also known as Imvamune or Imvanex) is an attenuated live virus vaccine which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of monkeypox."

 

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"As of May 21, the World Health Organization (WHO) received reports of 92 laboratory-confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases from 12 countries not endemic for the disease.

Some cases have been identified through sexual health clinics and investigations are ongoing. 

The disease could affect anyone

According to WHO, available evidence suggests that those who are most at risk are those who have had close physical contact with someone with monkeypox, and that risk is not limited in any way, to men who have sex with men."

 

(more)

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/05/1118762

 

AND

 

"Dr. John Brooks, a CDC official, emphasized that anyone can contract monkeypox through close personal contact regardless of sexual orientation. However, Brooks said many of the people affected globally so far are men who identify as gay or bisexual. Though some groups have greater chance of exposure to monkeypox right now, the risk isn’t limited only to the gay and bisexual community, he cautioned."

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/cdc-officials-sound-alarm-for-gay-and-bisexual-men-as-monkeypox-spreads-in-community-.html

 

"Though monkeypox can spread through respiratory droplets, the virus comes from infected lesions in the throat and mouth that can expel it into the air. But transmission from respiratory droplets requires prolonged face-to-face contact, according to the CDC.

 

“This is not Covid,” McQuiston said. “Respiratory spread is not the predominant worry. It is contact and intimate contact in the current outbreak setting and population.”

 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

According to the Department of Disease Control (DDC), travelers must now fill out and present a health declaration card upon arriving in Thailand. The card, which contains a QR code, allows officials to keep track of each passenger and provide appropriate medical care in the event of an emergency.

Here we go again... another QR code fiasco.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, timendres said:

In the US in 2003, people were getting monkey pox by playing with their prairie dogs.

I thought playing with your prairie dog was how you avoided getting a disease.

   (credit: Greg Garraldo)

If Soi dogs contract it were doomed... they're a protected species.

[Karma80]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"Though monkeypox can spread through respiratory droplets, the virus comes from infected lesions in the throat and mouth that can expel it into the air. But transmission from respiratory droplets requires prolonged face-to-face contact, according to the CDC.

 

“This is not Covid,” McQuiston said. “Respiratory spread is not the predominant worry. It is contact and intimate contact in the current outbreak setting and population.”

Fortunately, Thailand is a sexually conservative country. prostitution is illegal and doesn't exist. So no worries then ????

[bangon04]

I am guessing that many of the members on here are old enough to have received the smallpox vaccine when they were young.  Dig out your vaccine certs, ..........????

[bert bloggs]

On 5/25/2022 at 4:20 AM, bangon04 said:

I am guessing that many of the members on here are old enough to have received the smallpox vaccine when they were young.  Dig out your vaccine certs, ..........????

Yep,had mine,