Volunteers Sought for Monkeypox Immunity Tests

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Medical Science is looking for volunteers who received the smallpox vaccine prior to 1980 to examine if they have any residual immunity to monkeypox after successfully cultivating test strains of the new virus in their laboratories.

 

Dr Supakit Sirilak, chief of the Department of Medical Sciences, said the agency has grown enough monkeypox virus cells to commence clinical trials on three groups of ten people aged 40, 50 and 60 years.

 

According to the Ministry of Public Health, four cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Thailand, with none experiencing severe symptoms, compared to 30,000 verified worldwide infections and five fatalities. Since then, the agency has recommended that the public avoid having sexual contact with multiple partners, as the disease is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact.

 

The Khmer Times stated that a Nigerian man who fled from Phuket province to Phnom Penh after contracting monkeypox will be prosecuted for immigration violations and deported from Cambodia.

 

According to Keo Vannthan, a spokesperson for Cambodia’s Immigration Department, the 27-year-old would likely serve a sentence before being removed from the country. He added that the man was declared fully recovered from the disease on Saturday (6 Aug).

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220809142256980

 

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[StayinThailand2much]

Do they have internet at the Department of Medical Science? If so, they could just google recent articles, like one on "Bloomberg" from 7 Sep. 2022:

 

"Monkeypox is another orthopox virus and is closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox,” she says. “Because of the similarities between the viruses, the smallpox vaccine has been shown to be 85% effective at preventing monkeypox in clinical trials.”

But, she says, those smallpox vaccines also wane in effectiveness over time (...)"

Edited August 9, 2022 by StayinThailand2much

[internationalism]

but there is not any monkeypox vax in thailand yet.

So if smallpox won't work there would not be any effective help to those infected.

Thai did order some monkeypox vax from the WHO but when it arrives and in what quantities is unknown.