Thai police searching for monkeypox-infected Nigerian man

[Fairynuff]

2 hours ago, Inala said:

Hmmm, Nigerian man. And, "he had unprotected sex with a female" Ugghhh, if ever there was a case for wearing condoms that's it right there!

Why is it that these African guys always seem associated with trouble of some kind in Thailand? 

And white men never cause trouble right? Typical response from a racist.

[Fairynuff]

1 hour ago, Stargeezr said:

What, this guy was on overstay, and he has disappeared?  

  Why was he not kept in custody? Since my family doctor just told me today that this is a gay disease,

maybe the gay population in Thailand should be told to be on the lookout for this fellow.

Just saying.

Remind me not to see your doctor. Presumably he’d also tell you HIV is a gay disease too.

[Fairynuff]

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

This is not a gay disease, anybody can catch it. Please stop stigmatizing the LBGT.

His doctor told him. In a normal country you’d report your doctor for saying that.

[Fairynuff]

1 hour ago, Excel said:

But @Caldera  stated this "More likely with a male (or multiple males) and doesn't want to admit it"  which is within the realms of probability.

 

Frankly the entire island is potentially at risk whilst contacts of the Nigerian are currently unknown. and what about those 70,000 Indians claimed to have visited by TAT ?

Ah right, so all us lucky white folks are safe then.

[Fairynuff]

59 minutes ago, MrMo said:

the first recorded case in the world was in April this year.

That’s incorrect, It’s been endemic in many African countries for a long time.

[James mcgill]

16 hours ago, Gaccha said:

The Health Minister's ability to be even worse than my low expectations of him are remarkable. 

 

I'll try to make this nice and simple for the Health Minister should he be reading this (my guess is he reads the Farang Pub forum to make his decisions). A disease that is almost impossible to spread except by actively trying to spread it, is not a disease that requires the person to lose their freedom. 

 

Of course, this point also applies to the equally stupid syphilis tests for work permits. There's no need to test for it, because it can't be transmitted at work or in public. The syphilitic ill person would need to be malicious in intent or beyond stupid.

 

Let's contrast with COVID-19. Spreads through the air. Is astonishigly transmissible; possibly the most transmissible virus ever known to man. Kills around 1% of those infected. Is frequently symptomless. And... can re- infect easily, collapse the healthcare system and cause chronic illness lasting 2 or more years. 

 

My only explanation is blunt racism. If you have the vivid imagination of a racist then you will believe a blackman will try to sleep with everything in sight. 

That comment is simply stupid. Both syphilis and small box can be transmitted. The government is correct in preventing people that have these diseases from infecting, for example, prostitutes. Apparently, our lefty woke friend Couldn’t care less about prostitutes health and he’s only worried about skin color. A black man, as you said, indeed slept with a girl the previous night. The problem with Lefties is that they don’t acknowledge reality.

[crazykopite]

17 hours ago, Excel said:

That's the question, also raised elsewhere. It suggests that whilst he may be the first officially confirmed case he must have contracted it from someone .  If that is proved to be the case then Phuket could well be the epicenter of the outbreak in Thailand. Wonder how TAT will spin that one.  

It is reported in the U.K. that this virus is very active amongst the gay community maybe the powers to be should investigate and test the gay community in Phuket as he must of caught it from someone in the local community as he is on overstay for a long period of time 

[Flink]

17 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

What next?  Monkey pox  exams at BKK airport for all arrivals?  

Or an additional 300 on the tourist tax to cover Monkeypox treatment?

[Gaccha]

32 minutes ago, James mcgill said:

That comment is simply stupid. Both syphilis and small box can be transmitted. The government is correct in preventing people that have these diseases from infecting, for example, prostitutes. Apparently, our lefty woke friend Couldn’t care less about prostitutes health and he’s only worried about skin color. A black man, as you said, indeed slept with a girl the previous night. The problem with Lefties is that they don’t acknowledge reality.

You are the embodiment of a low- information voter.

 

If governments locked everyone up for having some mild infection that is impossible to transmit except by intimate physical contact, then everyone with Chlamydia should also be locked up (about a quarter of women). By your logic, a Cold infection requires camps and public executions.

 

Yes it's the case he could transmit it. Perhaps one person every couple of days. But with COVID, it transmits to 18 per infection on average. And kills 1%. By Day 10, a COVID outbreak would be around 10- 100,000 (around 100+ deaths), but a monkeypox outbreak would be around 5 people, all with mild symptoms.

 

 

The key with diseases is disease vectors. Monkeypox struggles to transmit. It almost only transmits through extreme and lengthy bodily contact. It does not require medical incarceration for having the virus. 

 

I really hope you are not the Health Minister's advisor. 

[Excel]

39 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

It is reported in the U.K. that this virus is very active amongst the gay community maybe the powers to be should investigate and test the gay community in Phuket as he must of caught it from someone in the local community as he is on overstay for a long period of time 

It would probably be prudent to instigate a wide series of tests

[phetphet]

GF said its been reported on  the news that he  has now left Thailand. Don't know where or how?

[metisdead]

2 minutes ago, phetphet said:

GF said its been reported on  the news that he  has now left Thailand. Don't know where or how?

 

Check this update:

 

 

[shackleton]

A Nigerian guy with Monkey pox and on over stay as well 

Some up the Immigration checks here in Thailand 

He is no doubt passing it around before he is eventually caught and deported 

[StayinThailand2much]

5 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Where is that someone ?

And the others?

[StayinThailand2much]

39 minutes ago, Flink said:

Or an additional 300 on the tourist tax to cover Monkeypox treatment?

All foreigners arriving will need a US$50,000 health insurance, covering Monkeypox...

[Millcx]

So we have the one and only case and cannot produce him … How do they know he had it … Was it a tip off 5555

[Stevemercer]

Another storm in a tea cup.

 

Monkey Pox can only be spread by direct skin to skin contact. Most (>90%) recorded infections are spread through gay sex. Maybe sex with lady boys is a risk factor.

 

Regardless, catching monkey pox is not  a concern for the majority of people in Thailand. Taking basic precautions to prevent HIV will also be effective against Monky Pox.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thai police and health officials in Phuket are trying to trace the whereabouts of a Nigerian man, confirmed to be Thailand’s first monkeypox case, after he did not show up for treatment at a hospital and disappeared from his hotel in Phuket’s Patong area on Tuesday

I wonder why?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, Caldera said:

Thailand's first case, but on overstay since a year? How does that even work?

Using the well established Thai formula.

[Liverpool Lou]

19 hours ago, FIshermanBkk said:

How then he got infected by monkeypox if he had been overstaying in thailand?  

He doesn't necessarily have to be here long to be overstaying, perhaps he brought it with him?

[Dont confuse me]

"According to the police, the man arrived in Phuket on October 21st last year and had lived at a condominium in Kathu district since November. His visa has expired."

Are they saying that he arrived In October and 9 months later symptoms appear or has he caught it from someone who is already infected?

If that is the case then it's well and truly here!

[Liverpool Lou]

19 hours ago, Excel said:

That's the question, also raised elsewhere. It suggests that whilst he may be the first officially confirmed case he must have contracted it from someone . 

Yes, he must have, perhaps from from an infected person in Nigeria, or wherever he was previously.

[The Hammer2021]

18 hours ago, Gaccha said:

The Health Minister's ability to be even worse than my low expectations of him are remarkable. 

 

I'll try to make this nice and simple for the Health Minister should he be reading this (my guess is he reads the Farang Pub forum to make his decisions). A disease that is almost impossible to spread except by actively trying to spread it, is not a disease that requires the person to lose their freedom. 

 

Of course, this point also applies to the equally stupid syphilis tests for work permits. There's no need to test for it, because it can't be transmitted at work or in public. The syphilitic ill person would need to be malicious in intent or beyond stupid.

 

Let's contrast with COVID-19. Spreads through the air. Is astonishigly transmissible; possibly the most transmissible virus ever known to man. Kills around 1% of those infected. Is frequently symptomless. And... can re- infect easily, collapse the healthcare system and cause chronic illness lasting 2 or more years. 

 

My only explanation is blunt racism. If you have the vivid imagination of a racist then you will believe a blackman will try to sleep with everything in sight. 

This is incorrect. Both syphilis and monkey are spread via sex.

It's also possible to be infected with both illnesses and not have symptoms  especially syphilis.

People can be infected and infectious for years with syphilis without them knowing.

Monkey pox is currently mainly prevalent in the gay community.

Sexual health and testing has nothing to do with racism.

BUT Absconding without treatment is criminally irresponsible.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Ummmm he got monkeypox from someone who is also in Thailand. Next question?

Next question is how do you know that he was infected by someone in Thailand?  Maybe he brought it with him.

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

6 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Ummmm he got monkeypox from someone who is also in Thailand. Next question?

Where is that someone ?

Nigeria?

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yes, he must have, perhaps from from an infected person in Nigeria, or wherever he was previously.

He has been in Thailand since October, are you saying he was an asymptomatic carrier since then....wow now that's an incubation period 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Millcx said:

So we have the one and only case and cannot produce him … How do they know he had it … Was it a tip off 5555

He went to a hospital to be checked.  I know that because I read the OP.

[Liverpool Lou]

9 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

16 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yes, he must have, perhaps from from an infected person in Nigeria, or wherever he was previously.

He has been in Thailand since October, are you saying he was an asymptomatic carrier since then....wow now that's an incubation period 

I'm saying that maybe he had it when he arrived here.  Are you saying that's not possible?

[Liverpool Lou]

5 minutes ago, Excel said:

Well he was on a big overstay

8 months.

[The Hammer2021]

12 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

He has been in Thailand since October, are you saying he was an asymptomatic carrier since then....wow now that's an incubation period 

How do you kmow he didn't have symptoms?