Samak Eats Phla Khem In Vientiane - Got The Runs

[george]

PM suffers from influenza not food poisoning : doctor

BUMRUNGRAD: -- Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej did not suffer from food poisoning but influenza, doctors of Bamrungrat Hospital said Tuesday.

Dr Apichart Siwayathorn, director of the hospital said that Samak has influenza type A.

Food poisoning is a side effect of the influenza which included fever and coughing, the doctor said.

Doctors recommended Samak to stay at the hospital for a few more days.

Government spokesman Wichienchote Sukchotirat earlier said Samak suffered from food poisoning after having local food during his official visit to Laos.

--The Nation 2008-04-01

[george]

Foul fish fells Thai PM; calls in sick: Spokesman

BANGKOK: -- Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was unable to attend his weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday and cancelled other official functions throughout the day after suffering from food poisoning while attending a two-day regional summit in Laos, a government spokesman said.

The food-friendly premier apparently encountered an unfriendly fermented fish in a Lao open market, while exploring the culinary delights of the neighbouring country.

Mr. Samak, 72, has had an upset stomach due to food poisoning since Monday while attending the six-nation Greater Mekong Sub-region summit in the Lao capital of Vientiane and returned home on the same day, government spokesman Wichianchot Sukchotrat said.

The premier was admitted to a Bangkok hospital, Mr. Wichianchot said, adding that the illness forced the premier to cancel all official functions schedule for today on his doctor's advice.

He is expected to return to work on Wednesday, according to the government spokesman.

Earlier the premier's close aide said the lack of enough sleep and frequent visits to various southeast Asian countries may have taken toll on Mr Samak's health.

The premier travelled extensively to introduce himself and to strengthen relations with the 10-member ASEAN grouping after assuming office in early February, following the December 2007 general election.

He is scheduled to visit the Philippines and Brunei in early April.

--TNA 2008-04-01

[george]

Update: Samak has flu, hospitalised 'a few days'

BANGKOK: -- Doctors at Bumrungrad Hospital, where Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was admitted on Tuesday morning, said the premier has influenza.

Mr Samak is advised to remain in hospital for a few more days. No visitors are allowed.

Earlier reports said Mr Samak had food poisoning after eating fermented fish at an outdoor market in Vientiane, Laos, on Monday.

He was taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning, and all work schedules were cancelled for the rest of the day.

The cabinet held its weekly meeting without him. Deputy Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat chaired the meeting. Mr Somchai is acting premier while Mr Samak is in hospital.

--Bangkok Post 2008-04-01

[BigSnake]

My THOUGHT, he now has CRAP flowinig out of both ends

[Ricardo]

PM suffers from influenza not food poisoning : doctor

BUMRUNGRAD: -- Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej did not suffer from food poisoning but influenza, doctors of Bamrungrat Hospital said Tuesday.

Dr Apichart Siwayathorn, director of the hospital said that Samak has influenza type A.

Food poisoning is a side effect of the influenza which included fever and coughing, the doctor said.

My Food-Hygiene course taught us that they were two seperate diseases, not one a side-effect, of the other ?

Doctors recommended Samak to stay at the hospital for a few more days.

Government spokesman Wichienchote Sukchotirat earlier said Samak suffered from food poisoning after having local food during his official visit to Laos.

Blame the foreigners as usual !

--The Nation 2008-04-01

[goonerthegooner]

That's all we need another PM full of ''''S@IT'''''

[Boater]

How can food poisoning be a side affect of the Flu?

Either you have food poisoning from eating bad food or you dont

[Scott]

Blame it on the foreigners--even if they are the neighbors!

[Tony Clifton]

Blame it on the foreigners--even if they are the neighbors!

So much for PPP's political etiquette following an official visit.

Cavemen.

[plachon]

How can food poisoning be a side affect of the Flu?

Either you have food poisoning from eating bad food or you dont

Probably only a case of foot in mouth disease, where after Samak's own spokesman had blabbed to the press that it was food poisoning from Laos that was to blame, they suddenly remembered how sensitive Thai-Lao relations can be and incidents in the past, such as when a Thai soap star (Nicole?) said something about Lao women never washing and raised the ire of all Laos, whipped up by none other than the industrious Lao Women's Union! The burning of the Thai Embassy incident in Phnom Penh also probably sprang to mind in retracting the comment and blaming anything else, even flu, for the food poisoning.

Personally I reckon it was as a result of picking his cavernous nostrils and eating the contents as a between meal ahaan wang tidbit.

[george]

PM discharged from hospital; resumes work Friday

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was discharged from a Bangkok hospital on Thursday after being hospitalised for two days.

Mr. Samak appeared in good physical condition and was smiling as he left Bumrungrad International Hospital.

He declined to be interviewed by reporters but promised to answer every question in his weekly "Meet the Press" session on Friday at Government House.

Hospital staff said that the PM wanted to have privacy while resting another day at his house before going back to work on Friday.

The PM was admitted to Bangkok's most luxurious private hospital on Tuesday after returning from a regional summit in Laos.

Initially, a government spokesman announced the PM had suffered from food poisoning that began when he was in Laos, but a few hours later, Bumrungrad doctors told a press conference that Mr. Samak had Type A influenza.

--TNA 2008-04-03

[matte]

PM suffers from influenza not food poisoning : doctor

BUMRUNGRAD: -- Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej did not suffer from food poisoning but influenza, doctors of Bamrungrat Hospital said Tuesday.

Dr Apichart Siwayathorn, director of the hospital said that Samak has influenza type A.

Food poisoning is a side effect of the influenza which included fever and coughing, the doctor said.

Doctors recommended Samak to stay at the hospital for a few more days.

Government spokesman Wichienchote Sukchotirat earlier said Samak suffered from food poisoning after having local food during his official visit to Laos.

--The Nation 2008-04-01

Together with the runs it seems like a good idea to keep him indoors.

[Bagwan]

I 'googled' type A influenza and read a dozen or so reports including one from CDC. Not one mentions diarrhoea or throwing up, nor does it make mention of complications that would produce those symptoms. Influenza is a viral disease of the respiratory tract and the virus is common amongst feral birds. I doubt very much that Mr. Big contracted the ailment from fermented fish, unless somebody already afflicted had coughed or sneezed on it a short time before. Perhaps he has only caught a cold - from a fire engine maybe?

How anybody could confuse influenza with food poisoning is beyond my understanding. It would seem that the Press have misreported (again!), the original diagnosis was made by somebody with an imperfect understanding of common ailments or this is yet another 'smoke and mirrors' exercise from yet another incompetent Thai government.

In the UK, those over the age of 65 are offered vaccination against influenza free of charge. On your list of things to do Mr. Smack?

[Tony Clifton]

In Samak's case , it can only be swine flu.

[matte]

In Samak's case , it can only be swine flu.

Nope, it culd also be the foot-in-mouth disease...

[sriracha john]

Foul fish fells Thai PM; calls in sick: Spokesman

BANGKOK: -- Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was unable to attend his weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday and cancelled other official functions throughout the day after suffering from food poisoning while attending a two-day regional summit in Laos, a government spokesman said.

UPDATE... Samak is mai sabai again... with more of the same food poisoning...

Although he might have to leave the country soon though as his "condition" is beyond the capabilities of Asia's "medical hub"... his pending 2-year-prison sentence notwithstanding...

Chalerm to visit Samak

Minister of Public Health Police Captain Chalerm Yoobamrung planned to visit former prime minister Samak Sundaravej after learning the latter was sick of poisonous food.

Police Captain Chalerm said today (October 6) that there was no communication between him and the former premier Samak since the former Thai leader has been sick of poisonous food and was admitted at Bamrungrad hospital.

So, he was not aware of how serious and what type of sickness Samak was.

Police Captain Chalerm also said he was not aware the former prime minister's illness was so serious to the extent that he had to travel to treat the illness overseas.

But personally, the Minister of Public Health was anxious about Samak's illness and planned to visit him soon.

In the meantime, doctors denied to disclose details of Samak's illness for fear of violating the profession’s ethics.

- ThaiNews / 2008-10-06

[TAWP]

Samak tried to cook again and see what happened...

[mrtoad]

With that sentence just around the corner he look's like he's about to do a runner, just like his puppetmaster did.

[TAWP]

You mean Thaksin told him to do a runner but seeing as their level of English is poor, he read the note as 'do a rinner'?

Thanks, I'll be here all weeks. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

[phupaman]

Hi all.

Last night on tv news they said he was thought to have Liver Cancer, Looking for a way out of 2 year jail term,

I think he will get it. T.I.T.

phupaman

[animatic]

Hi all.

Last night on tv news they said he was thought to have Liver Cancer, Looking for a way out of 2 year jail term,

I think he will get it. T.I.T.

phupaman

Though to have...

hmm you can get treatment going to hospital between stays in your cell.

If I was in the Bangkok Hilton you think I could get out crying

'Liver Cancer, maybe!' Weasel cancer maybe.

[animatic]

Well time to give him the benefit of the doubt that he does have it.

[plachon]

ln all seriousness, for any gourmands with a penchant for uncooked pla daek, like the esteemed ex-PM, then there is a good chance you may end up with liver cancer as the old boy claims. Isaan as one of the highest rate of liver cancer in the world, if not THE highest, and pla daek is considered a contributory factor, along with the strong hooch and other lifestyle factors. I'm not sure if it is the pla daek itself to blame though, rather than the damage done to liver by the flukes contained within and then the strong drugs used to flush those flukes out that ruin their livers. Quite a few members of my extended family have gone down with liver cancer and it is not a pleasant way to go.