Thailand reports first case of monkeypox in transit passenger to Australia

[webfact]

 

Thailand has reported its first case of Monkeypox, in an air passenger travelling from Europe who stopped over at an international airport in Bangkok for about two hours prior to transiting onto a flight to Australia, where he later developed symptoms, according to the Disease Control Department.

 

12 crew members and passengers on the same flight, who were in close contact with the infected traveller, have now been quarantined in Thailand for seven days, adding that none of them have shown any symptoms associated with monkeypox, but they will be isolated for 21 days to ensure they are safe, according to Head of the Bureau of Epidemiology Dr. Chakkarat Pittayawonganon.

 

Lab tests on five tourists in Phuket, including three brothers from Ireland, who were initially thought to be infected with monkeypox after they developed blisters, show that they were infected with herpes, said Dr. Chakkarat, not monkeypox.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-reports-first-case-of-monkeypox-in-transit-passenger-to-australia/

 

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[webfact]

Monkeypox case in Thailand confirmed in transit passenger at Suvarnabhumi Airport last week 

by News Desk

 

The Chief of the Epidemiology Division of the Department of Disease Control within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr Chakkarat Pitayowonganon, has confirmed one case of monkeypox in a transit passenger in recent days travelling from Europe to Australia via Thailand who was reportedly asymptomatic.

 

First case detected in Thailand is a transit passenger who only spent two hours at Suvarnabhumi Airport and was asymptomatic. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Public Health remains vigilant and is putting in place plans for potential protocols if required.

 

Thailand on Monday confirmed its first case of monkeypox. A top official revealed that the case was that of a transit passenger travelling from Europe to Australia last week who was in the kingdom for only two hours. The news follows an announcement on Sunday that three suspected cases of the virus were, in fact, instances of the herpes virus.

 

Dr Chakkarat Pitayowonganon, the Head of the Epidemiology Division at the Department of Disease Control on Monday confirmed that Thailand has detected a verified case of monkeypox in connection with an Australian business class passenger who transited through Suvarnabhumi Airport last week.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/05/30/monkeypox-transit-case-in-thailand-revealed/

 

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[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand has reported its first case of Monkeypox

so what ?

 

 

it has been around for years

 

 

I just sneezed while typing this

 

just looking for a tissue

 

 

enough of this ##

[Willy Wombat]

Quick, run to the hills 

[SunnyinBangrak]

Hopefully he didn't join the mile high club 

[SAFETY FIRST]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

three brothers from Ireland, who were initially thought to be infected with monkeypox after they developed blisters, show that they were infected with herpes

OMG, what have these brothers been up to. 

 

Phuket girls, take care. 

 

 

[RandiRona]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Lab tests on five tourists in Phuket, including three brothers from Ireland, who were initially thought to be infected with monkeypox after they developed blisters, show that they were infected with herpes

Hahaha...Thailand would catch more Herpes than monekypox here....Guess what the tourists number would be if Thailand decide to make Herpes tests mandatory? 

[Mywayboy]

15 minutes ago, RandiRona said:

Hahaha...Thailand would catch more Herpes than monekypox here....Guess what the tourists number would be if Thailand decide to make Herpes tests mandatory? 

Larry, Mo, Curly have Herpes.

Must have had a gang band in Phuket. 5555

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

12 crew members and passengers on the same flight, who were in close contact with the infected traveller, have now been quarantined in Thailand for seven days,

 

but they will be isolated for 21 days to ensure they are safe,

Kerching - cash cow approaching

[Homburg]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

12 crew members and passengers on the same flight, who were in close contact with the infected traveller, have now been quarantined in Thailand for seven days, adding that none of them have shown any symptoms associated with monkeypox, but they will be isolated for 21 days to ensure they are safe, according to Head of the Bureau of Epidemiology Dr. Chakkarat Pittayawonganon.

And so the quarantine game is restarting. Just when they thought it was all over!

[Dukeleto]

I can’t find any details on how the asymptomatic business class passenger was discovered to be Ill with supposed monkey pox. If he was asymptomatic how did he know or anyone else? Are they screening everyone (even in transit) with a monkey pox PCR test (we already know how unreliable those are even if you do not add in the “Thai handling” factor)? There is just far too little information to understand how this all occurred. With all this monkey business continuing I certainly won’t be risking a return to Thailand. If the Monkeypox doesn’t pan out for the WHO I wonder what contagion they have lined up to keep the hype and fear and scams going. Unfortunately their poster child Covid has transformed itself into a dud after Africa chewed it up and spat it back out! By the way, thank you Africa for that, you managed to do what a billion Chinese couldn’t.

[ikke1959]

I think it is not true , but Thailand likes to be part of everything...an asymptonic passenger spend 2 hours on the airport....So a change of airplanes in 2 hours is not so long and wy was he tested on monkeypox/? Is that a part of the new normal now?? ATK for Covid and Monkeypox?? and that while there are almost no cases worldwide...

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

12 crew members and passengers on the same flight, who were in close contact with the infected traveller, have now been quarantined in Thailand for seven days, adding that none of them have shown any symptoms associated with monkeypox, but they will be isolated for 21 days to ensure they are safe, according to Head of the Bureau of Epidemiology Dr. Chakkarat Pittayawonganon.

That's stuffed up their holiday.

[hotchilli]

30 minutes ago, Homburg said:

And so the quarantine game is restarting. Just when they thought it was all over!

Not even safe to transit through Thailand...

[khunjeff]

39 minutes ago, Dukeleto said:

I can’t find any details on how the asymptomatic business class passenger was discovered to be Ill with supposed monkey pox. If he was asymptomatic how did he know or anyone else? Are they screening everyone (even in transit) with a monkey pox PCR test

The article says that the passenger was "in Bangkok for about two hours prior to transiting onto a flight to Australia, where he later developed symptoms".

 

So, no case has been discovered in Thailand at all - it was discovered in Oz, and authorities there presumably notified the Thai government that the person had passed through Bangkok. 

[davemos]

Monkeypox spreads between people primarily through direct contact with infectious sores, scabs, or body fluids. It also can be spread by respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact..Must have been a great flight .!

[Walker88]

1 hour ago, khunjeff said:

The article says that the passenger was "in Bangkok for about two hours prior to transiting onto a flight to Australia, where he later developed symptoms".

 

So, no case has been discovered in Thailand at all - it was discovered in Oz, and authorities there presumably notified the Thai government that the person had passed through Bangkok. 

And if he shook hands with any fellow passengers, or sneezed on them, some of whom might have remained in Thailand.....here we go.

 

Odd that the flight crew who ended their leg in BKK are quarantined, but no mention of any passengers who may have ended their journey in BKK being quarantined. I doubt the now-infected passenger spent any time in the cockpit.

 

One gets the feeling this is either going to become very big, or at least some will try to exploit it to make it really big. It is puzzling why this disease, long present in Africa, is only now spreading globally. What has changed? It's not as if int'l travel is a new thing in 2022.

[aussiexpat]

It's like they desperately want to have a monkeypox case. A tourist transiting has been confirmed, how would they know as they can't even diagnose cases within Thailand (yep Herpes must be so similar)

 

Also, I read primary transmission is through sex, why are all the flight crew quarantined?

[ian007]

The start of the new hysteria created by the Thai government to scare the sh*t out of their folks once more to be able to control them as they like..... And they will fall for it again. 

[Old Croc]

26 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Odd that the flight crew who ended their leg in BKK are quarantined, but no mention of any passengers who may have ended their journey in BKK being quarantined. I doubt the now-infected passenger spent any time in the cockpit.

I read this -  "12 crew members and passengers on the same flight" and made the assumption that it must have been other business class passengers who disembarked in Bangkok, and the CABIN crew who served them.

 

Calling them 12 FLIGHT crew had to be a writers mistake.

[DUNROAMIN]

Lets see now, Mmmmm, ok guys I think we can scam some more money from Foreigner's and the general public, lets put the fear of God into everyone with the Monkey Pox out break. Revenue from vaccines, insurance, hotels, hospitals all will help the economy.????????

[bert bloggs]

Again today in the British newspapers the headline reads 79 more cases of monkeypox ,if you read the wholestory though ,agin it says passed between men who had sex with other men

So if your not gay,there is very very little to worry about.

Why dont the headlines say this?  Stop worrying the vast majority of the population.

[Road Warrior]

lets panic now  --  soon must have vax ,then bars/market closed --here we go again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ginner]

6 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

OMG, what have these brothers been up to. 

 

Phuket girls, take care. 

 

 

Shingles is a form of herpes, it attacks the nerve ends and shows up as small blister and rash on the skin. very common when I was 8 years old my friend had it. Any one over 50 as a 50/50 chance of suffering from it.

[Sydebolle]

Before the proverbial manure hits the air-mixing device; small pox, chicken pox and monkey pox are all transmitted by the fluid of bursting skin pimples. Every child in Europe - back in the day - went through chicken pox and hence is immune to all those pox deviations. 
Albeit very itchy (which results in scratching and "tearing" those tiny pimples open) the best is to rest/stay at home, the itchiness disappears the way it came. 

Apart from that and some goons in the Ministry of Public Health are already getting new passbooks from their bank to accommodate the possible monetary fall-out ????

 

Edited May 31, 2022 by metisdead
Trolling image removed.

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Not even safe to transit through Thailand...

Yes indeed - avoid Thailand "like the plague"!

[sawadee1947]

6 hours ago, Mywayboy said:

gang band

Rather more a Gang Bang I suppose ????

[Joe Farang]

4 hours ago, Walker88 said:

It is puzzling why this disease, long present in Africa, is only now spreading globally. What has changed? It's not as if int'l travel is a new thing in 2022.

I was watching a TV prog last night and a Virologist was speaking. He said the incidence in Central and Eastern Africa was on the rise and this was still being investigated. He also said one of the reasons it was rising in Europe is due to people no longer being vaccinated against smallpox. He said smallpox was eradicated and inocculation stopped in 1979. This vaccine also had 85% protection against Monkey pox. He also said that the disease is endemic in Africa as it transferred from small rodents to humans there rather than Monkeys. He said the biggest danger to Europe is if it transfers again from humans to small rodents like rats, squirrels or mice. If this happens it will become endemic in Europe.

[mommysboy]

Happy ending airways?

 

Stop this nonsense right now.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Yes indeed - avoid Thailand "like the plague"!

I wasn't around then what was it like ?????