Biting back: Thailand’s dengue battle claims 33 lives, Public Health Office reveals

[snoop1130]

 

The Public Health Office (PHO) announced 33 lives have been lost to dengue in Thailand. According to the PHO report, 27,377 cases of dengue have been documented in the country and 33 people have died resulting from dengue infection.

 

An expert from the Khlong Yai District PHO in the eastern province of Trat, Panaporn Harnhiam, told Thairath yesterday that 97 dengue cases have been recorded in the community from January 1 until yesterday, July 11.

 

Panaporn revealed that most of the patients lived in the Khlong Yai and Hadd Lek districts in the province which is close to Cambodia. He added that most of the Cambodian residents working in the province are also at risk.

 

The provincial public health asked for cooperation from the relevant departments to implement measures to control the mosquito population. In addition, they have urged residents to prevent mosquitoes from breeding by refraining from leaving stagnant water in containers.

 

The concern surrounding dengue fever is not limited to the Trat province alone. Authorities in the northern province of Chiang Mai have also taken action to eliminate potential breeding grounds to help mitigate the spread of this illness.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Caption: Photo by Vaccines at Sanofi via flickr

 

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[dinsdale]

As dangerous as this is I guess now covid is no longer in the news they need something. Dengue happens every year. Thais don't clean up breading areas for mozzies. It will continue. Fortunately no masks are required.

[Yorkshire Tea]

34 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Authorities in the northern province of Chiang Mai have also taken action to eliminate potential breeding grounds to help mitigate the spread of this illness.

Not seen any action such as fogging machines for years.

[G Rex]

They fogged in my area near Kanchanaburi last week - so they are being proactive.

I had Dengue 2 years ago.  Bloody awful!! - felt like death! (I think)

I hope not to contract it again - as the severity of the disease increases with subsequent infections.

You do develop immunity after infection , but only to that strain/sub-type - and there are 4....

[Vatman]

Over 27k cases of dengue, I assume this year, although the report fails to give a time frame. Does anyone know which is the prevalent strain? Is it DENV 1, 2, 3 or 4? I had DENV 2 about 10 years ago so I believe I'm immune to that particular strain but not to the other 3. Moreover I understand that having recovered from one strain, if you then get one of the other strains you will be more seriously affected than if you'd never had dengue before.

[K2938]

45 minutes ago, G Rex said:

I hope not to contract it again - as the severity of the disease increases with subsequent infections.

What do you specifically do to protect yourself, having already been faced with it once, if I may ask?

[G Rex]

31 minutes ago, K2938 said:

What do you specifically do to protect yourself, having already been faced with it once, if I may ask?

I try not to get bitten my mosquitoes with a striped abdomen in the daytime.  Ie - easier said than done!!

[alien365]

41 minutes ago, K2938 said:

What do you specifically do to protect yourself, having already been faced with it once, if I may ask?

I've already had it once so I'm also more proactive in protecting myself from bites. When I think I will be exposed, I wear mosquito proof socks by craghoppers from the UK. I have mosquito proof tops that they cannot bite through the weave, I take my own mosquito racquets with stands to outdoor restaurants, and naturally I use mosquito repellent. I don't really know of much more that I can do. 

[MrJ2U]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Fortunately no masks are required.

What is it with you and masks?

 

Give it a rest.

 

 

[RichardColeman]

If the W.H.O. gets their way they'll soon be locking down countries for somebody just sneezing 

Edited July 13, 2023 by RichardColeman

[K2938]

https://www.empr.com/home/news/drugs-in-the-pipeline/takeda-withdraws-us-application-for-dengue-vaccine-candidate/

[h90]

13 hours ago, dinsdale said:

As dangerous as this is I guess now covid is no longer in the news they need something. Dengue happens every year. Thais don't clean up breading areas for mozzies. It will continue. Fortunately no masks are required.

But google Dengue Vaccine Philippines.....They rushed a Astra Zeneka type vaccine without much testing and than bad problems long before Covid

[h90]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

If the W.H.O. gets their way they'll soon be locking down countries for somebody just sneezing 

and no travel without the vaccine.....which we don't have yet but surely we can warp speed produce some...no need to waste time with testing

[GroveHillWanderer]

Just to point out that while the new dengue vaccine Qdenga has not been submitted for approval in the US yet, that is more due to technical reasons related to data availability than because of any doubts about its efficacy or safety.

 

Meanwhile, it has been approved by the EMA for use throughout Europe, and in various other countries including the UK and Thailand.

 

This new vaccine is apparently safe regardless of previous exposure to dengue, unlike the previous one, Dengvaxia.

 

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On December 8, 2022, QDENGA became the only dengue vaccine approved in Europe for use regardless of previous dengue exposure and without pre-vaccination testing. 

QDENGA (TAK-003) Dengue Vaccine

[superal]

It would be interesting to see a map of the dengue high risk areas  . Many people think that the evenings are the times when dengue is prevalent but it is day and night and more so in rural districts where waste water or rain accumulations are left to gather .  The local Thai government sometimes inspects your home for places that contain water in your garden that the mosquito will lay her eggs . Potential fine .  

[h90]

23 minutes ago, superal said:

It would be interesting to see a map of the dengue high risk areas  . Many people think that the evenings are the times when dengue is prevalent but it is day and night and more so in rural districts where waste water or rain accumulations are left to gather .  The local Thai government sometimes inspects your home for places that contain water in your garden that the mosquito will lay her eggs . Potential fine .  

I got it in Bangkok

[superal]

2 hours ago, h90 said:

I got it in Bangkok

I guess that happens but a bit scary none the less

[h90]

29 minutes ago, superal said:

I guess that happens but a bit scary none the less

one would guess the pollution kills them

yes got it in BKK....and it was no fun....on 40C for 5 days...than fever went down and came a bit again together with the skin problems

Paracetamol helps to bring the fever down for a few hours so you can eat and drink something before going back into the fever dreams.

 

[K2938]

9 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Just to point out that while the new dengue vaccine Qdenga has not been submitted for approval in the US yet, that is more due to technical reasons related to data availability than because of any doubts about its efficacy or safety.

Not quite true.  It had been submitted for approval in the U.S. and due to data deficiencies Takeda just withdrew the approval submission in the U.S. again as stated in the link I posted a few posts higher up: 

https://www.empr.com/home/news/drugs-in-the-pipeline/takeda-withdraws-us-application-for-dengue-vaccine-candidate/

 

So all does not seem to be going as smoothly as one would wish unfortunately.  The EU and other countries approved the vaccine, but maybe the U.S. authorities - but that is just speculation - were looking deeper.  Certainly it would have been nicer if the U.S. had approved it.

 

 

[jacko45k]

On 7/13/2023 at 9:19 AM, h90 said:

and no travel without the vaccine.....which we don't have yet but surely we can warp speed produce some...no need to waste time with testing

Scare mongering.....

[h90]

23 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Scare mongering.....

In Philippines they mass vaccinated children in school with an untested vaccine with side effects......so it is not complete over the top scare mongering.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, h90 said:

In Philippines they mass vaccinated children in school with an untested vaccine with side effects......so it is not complete over the top scare mongering.

Distraction.

And your 'no travel without vaccine' claim  is law in how many countries?

[h90]

9 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Distraction.

And your 'no travel without vaccine' claim  is law in how many countries?

no it is not.....But Thailand had the "no entry without covid" vaccine already for a few hours.....other countries had it for month.....So it is not complete impossible.

[jacko45k]

8 minutes ago, h90 said:

no it is not.....But Thailand had the "no entry without covid" vaccine already for a few hours.....other countries had it for month.....So it is not complete impossible.

Well the thread is about Dengue with no direct human to human transmission,  and is not near as communicable as Covid... fret not thyself. 

[GroveHillWanderer]

3 hours ago, h90 said:

no it is not.....But Thailand had the "no entry without covid" vaccine already for a few hours.....other countries had it for month.....So it is not complete impossible.

Dengue is spread by mosquitoes not humans. So the only travel ban that would help would be to ban mosquitoes from traveling. Which I'm pretty sure is impossible.

Edited July 16, 2023 by GroveHillWanderer