Anti-Monkeypox measures introduced at Thai airports

[webfact]

 

Overseas arrivals, from countries where Monkeypox infections have been detected, are now screened for symptoms, such as blisters, by health officials as they walk through the scanners at Thailand’s international airports. They are then issued with a “health beware” notice, in QR code form, as the country steps up measures to prevent the import of the disease from overseas.

 

According to the Department of Disease Control, all travellers arriving from abroad are advised to see a doctor immediately if they develop a fever and blisters.

 

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Hospitals are required to take samples from the traveller with a suspected infection and send them to the Department of Medical Sciences for analysis. A report must also be filed.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/anti-monkeypox-measures-introduced-at-thai-airports/

 

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[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Overseas arrivals, from countries where Monkeypox infections have been detected, are now screened for symptoms, such as blisters, by health officials as they walk through the scanners at Thailand’s international airports.

How does that work ? Those blisters could be anywhere, so are these scanners going to be looking at you nude through your clothes ? 

[vandeventer]

12 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

How does that work ? Those blisters could be anywhere, so are these scanners going to be looking at you nude through your clothes ? 

Please, you are scaring away the 1 million tourist coming. They say monkey pox can be pass on threw rats as well I'll bet there are a few in Bangkok.

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

How does that work ? Those blisters could be anywhere, so are these scanners going to be looking at you nude through your clothes ? 

It's the swinging from the ceiling that gives it away. 

[Sydebolle]

How boring; I am getting ready for the next stint already. I hear that the mice cough, the flea flu and the elephant rash is on its fast way to Thailand - beware of the next pandemic with compliments of the system ???? 

[mikebell]

More Insurance policies required; more hotel isolations.  All in the name of Baht.

[chalawaan]

Let the endless population control on the premise of every new "flu" variant begin. 

What a freaking joke!

[actonion]

I think a lot of blokes should be screened for a dose of the     'pox'    as they leave Thailand

[Purdey]

Was waiting for someone to say it is no worse than flu. 

 

When the tail starts to grow, let us know.

[RandiRona]

Here comes $1000000 baht insurance  and 14 days quarantine in Monkey+ approved 'hospitels'.

Emergency decree is being written as we speak.....

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Overseas arrivals, from countries where Monkeypox infections have been detected, are now screened for symptoms, such as blisters, by health officials as they walk through the scanners at Thailand’s international airports.

Drop your pants and bend over please.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, vandeventer said:

Please, you are scaring away the 1 million tourist coming. They say monkey pox can be pass on threw rats as well I'll bet there are a few in Bangkok.

Scary... the rat variety is endless.

[Orinoco]

49 minutes ago, actonion said:

I think a lot of blokes should be screened for a dose of the     'pox'    as they leave Thailand

Yes,  saves getting caught out by the wife back home.

[sqwakvfr]

The only true way to screen is:  A full body strip search.  A body scanner cannot detect blisters covered by clothing.  

[metisdead]

A post with a video from an unapproved social media source has been removed.

[thisisrascal]

As a Brit who’ll be flying to Thailand next week I’m pretty nervous about how this is going. I can envisage a ban on new arrivals from the UK if our numbers continue to rise as they have been over the past few days.

 

All of this caused by some absolute plonker deciding to visit some s-hole in Africa. 

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

More Insurance policies required; more hotel isolations.  All in the name of Baht.

The memo they got missed out the 'k'.

[GroveHillWanderer]

3 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

 

 The vast majority of monkeypox cases are not sexually transmitted and it's only this (so far) very small outbreak of only around 100 cases that seems to involve mostly gay or bisexual men. This is almost certainly due to the "founder effect" whereby the small current outbreak seems to have started at a couple of "super spreader" events in Spain and Belgium involving MSM (men who have sex with men).

 

In areas of Africa where it's endemic and there are thousands of cases per year (largely ignored by the Western media) it spreads from person to person via close, non-sexual contact so sexual orientation plays little or no part in it.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

46 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

 The vast majority of monkeypox cases are not sexually transmitted and it's only this (so far) very small outbreak of only around 100 cases that seems to involve mostly gay or bisexual men. This is almost certainly due to the "founder effect" whereby the small current outbreak seems to have started at a couple of "super spreader" events in Spain and Belgium involving MSM (men who have sex with men).

 

In areas of Africa where it's endemic and there are thousands of cases per year (largely ignored by the Western media) it spreads from person to person via close, non-sexual contact so sexual orientation plays little or no part in it.

 

Thank you for providing a dose of non-stereotyping, non-stigmatizing medical reality...   which is exactly what the various health authorities have been saying:

 

"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.”

 

[GroveHillWanderer]

2 hours ago, thisisrascal said:

All of this caused by some absolute plonker deciding to visit some s-hole in Africa. 

What evidence do you have for such a claim?

 

Nobody knows how this latest outbreak in Western countries started.

 

The 2003 outbreak in the US for instance, came from rodents imported from Ghana to the US and then spread further, via pet prairie dogs that got infected, to their owners.

 

How Did the U.S. Handle the 2003 Monkeypox Outbreak?

 

For all we know this could have started in a similar manner.

Edited May 25, 2022 by GroveHillWanderer

[Meat Pie 47]

2 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

 The vast majority of monkeypox cases are not sexually transmitted and it's only this (so far) very small outbreak of only around 100 cases that seems to involve mostly gay or bisexual men. This is almost certainly due to the "founder effect" whereby the small current outbreak seems to have started at a couple of "super spreader" events in Spain and Belgium involving MSM (men who have sex with men).

 

In areas of Africa where it's endemic and there are thousands of cases per year (largely ignored by the Western media) it spreads from person to person via close, non-sexual contact so sexual orientation plays little or no part in it.

Monkeypox is largely transmitted through close, skin-to-skin contact with people who have lesions as a result of the virus. You can also catch the virus through respiratory droplets if you're around an infected person with lesions in their mouth for an extended period.

[Road Warrior]

where are the proposed blisters. face or ????????????????????????? 

[simon43]

5 hours ago, thisisrascal said:

....

All of this caused by some absolute plonker deciding to visit some s-hole in Africa. 

From reading about how it has been spreading, I guess your comment is meant to be taken literally! ????

[Excel]

Just now, simon43 said:

From reading about how it has been spreading, I guess your comment is meant to be taken literally! ????

Well the trip really did turn into a bit of bummer for him ????

[GroveHillWanderer]

40 minutes ago, Road Warrior said:

where are the proposed blisters. face or ????????????????????????? 

They can be almost anywhere on the body.

[Senior Player]

On 5/25/2022 at 12:42 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

According to WHO....

Can I stop you right there? The WHO have a vested interest in keeping the general populace in a constant state of alarm due to them wanting every country in the world to sign-up to their Global Pandemic Treaty... And don't let the WaPo or any other mealy mouthed publication tell you otherwise.

 

There's plenty of expert virologists that will give you the straight facts about the monkey pox without the fear factor.

Edited May 26, 2022 by onthedarkside
unsourced / unsubstantiated comment removed

[Senior Player]

I should add that for Britons aged 50 and over, they should already have enough robust protection against this virus as the vast majority would have had the smallpox jab as a child or as a teen. Britons were routinely offered smallpox jabs until the 1970s, when the scheme was deemed no longer necessary because the virus had been beaten into submission. Similar programmes were wound down across the world at the same time. There's plenty of articles available online about this, so don't let the WHO panic you into yet another Chicken Little scenario.

Edited May 25, 2022 by Senior Player

[Lucky Bones]

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Drop your pants and bend over please.

Sorry. 

Busy that day

(Ouch)

[Rufo]

92 cases worldwide out of almost eight billion people. There is something to be worried about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jingthing]

The name is a bit much.

It's monkey shaming.