webfact Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Ministry places health officials on Ebola alert BANGKOK: -- Although the risk of the deadly Ebola spreading to Thailand is low, but the Public Health ministry nevertheless issued three measures today for health officials nationwide to stay vigilant. The three instructions for all health workers were issued by the Ministry’s permanent-secretary Dr Narong Sahamethawat. In the statement, Dr Narong said the Ebola virus disease has spread in three African countries, namely Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia with the World Health Organisation on July 20 releasing latest Ebola infected patients rising to 1,093 with 660 deaths. New patients also are increasing with latest patient in Nigeria dying on July 25. As currently there is no antiviral therapy or vaccine that is effective against Ebola virus infection in humans, Thailand should stay on alert even though the risk of the spreading to the country of this deadly virus is low, he said. He instructed all health workers to stay vigilant. He advised the Bureau of Epidemiology of the Disease Control Department to monitor the disease situation closely from the WHO, and all public health offices across the country to watch out for patients, particularly from among Thais and foreign tourists returning and coming in from virus infected countries. As the disease is incurable, therefore close monitoring system would be the possible way to stop the disease, he said. In case of detecting suspicious patient, health officials are required to report relevant health agency immediately. He also advised all hospitals to adopt high standard of medical treatment and care of suspicious cases equivalent to bird flu and SARs patients. The Department of Medical Sciences was also instructed to get ready for laboratory test and diagnosis of virus in cooperation with the United States’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), he added. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ministry-places-health-officials-ebola-alert/ [thaipbs]2014-07-30[/thaipbs] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BKKBrit Posted July 30, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2014 All airlines to declare if they have citizens of Ebola-detected nations onboard might be a good start and a list given to health officials to check those arriving flights. I hear an American that died in Lagos a few days made two flights in West Africa despite being really sick and despite his sister dying from Ebola just days before. This could prove to be nasty if airlines don't play a critical role in monitoring the origins of their passengers and inflight crew alerting cockpit crew if passengers develop symptoms inflight. That includes the likes of Etihad, Emirates, Qatar. Kenyan and Ethiopian Airlines that bring West African visitors here. You don't play around with something that has 80-90% fatalities within 5 days of contact. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seastallion Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 All airlines to declare if they have citizens of Ebola-detected nations onboard might be a good start and a list given to health officials to check those arriving flights. I hear an American that died in Lagos a few days made two flights in West Africa despite being really sick and despite his sister dying from Ebola just days before. This could prove to be nasty if airlines don't play a critical role in monitoring the origins of their passengers and inflight crew alerting cockpit crew if passengers develop symptoms inflight. That includes the likes of Etihad, Emirates, Qatar. Kenyan and Ethiopian Airlines that bring West African visitors here. You don't play around with something that has 80-90% fatalities within 5 days of contact. Quite right. The Ministry was correct in issuing the warning. Just hope they follow up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Public Health Ministry on high alert against possible Ebola outbreak BANGKOK, 30 July 2014 (NNT) – The Public Health Ministry confirmed that no cases of Ebola have been reported in Thailand but health officials will remain on high alert against a possible outbreak. The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has continued to plague West Africa, as leaders scramble to stop the virus from spreading. As of July 20, the World Health Organization had confirmed 224 cases of Ebola in Liberia, including 127 deaths. Overall, Ebola has killed at least 660 people in West Africa. The ministry said that although the risk of contracting Ebola in Thailand is relatively low, the Department of Disease Control will continue to monitor updates from the WHO and will monitor Thai travelers or foreign tourists who have recently been to West Africa. All hospitals have been instructed to quarantine patients with symptoms of Ebola, as there are no known vaccines that could cure Ebola. Thailand is also coordinating with the US Disease Control Department on the matter. Ebola is a severe acute viral illness often characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat. Other symptoms that may follow include diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, as well as internal and external bleeding in some cases. [nnt]2014-07-30[/nnt] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 wow, now this is scary shit. My sore throat just got worse ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawthorne Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Presently the WHO is claiming the virus is only transmitted by bodily fluids and yet three doctors have contracted it in a the last 10 days with one passing away already. I understand medical staff are coming in frequent contact but they are also the most cautious and best prepared. It is scary as hell thinking people will panic and try to leave the area with possibly transmitting it globally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 ebola comes from the same country that brings in those nice drug dealers, mules & scammers no crackdown on them ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussieroaming Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 A few cases started this in February and now that figure is approaching 700 and they are cases that have been formally diagnosed. Notification doesn't just include notifying about nationals from these country's, there is also a large expat population that fly from these country's to every corner of the world and I mean that literally. So this disease could go anywhere within a couple of days. Having flown in and out of Conarky myself a number of times this year it was pretty apparent that the notion of airport screening there is a very very small likelihood. The scary thing about this is that there are hundreds of land borders and much more illegal border tracks so halting human movement is nigh on impossible. Add that to the fact that many Africans believe in witchcraft it seem impossible to control a disease by western methods alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterphuket Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 The government in GB takes the same precautions, I think it is a wise and important dicission. From what I have read is is not omly transferrable by body fluid, when I see al the precautions it is very dangerus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrerakiss Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 This sort of warning/announcement is nothing more than grabbing the limelight when an opportunity presents itself. Instead of pontificating with hugely generalized areas of action that are no more than stating the bleeding obvious, just like "wash your hands after using the toilet", why not do something practical and vet any and all arrivals from the three effected countries (if there are any such flights) and at the same time have every incoming airline passenger fill in a form declaring whether they have been to the effected countries in the last 15 days. And do follow up checks on any that have. It's not rocket science, just look back to the measures taken by Singapore and HK during SARS. In fact, all arrivals by car from mainland China still have their temperature taken at the HK border. The immigration people have a hand held thermometer that they aim at your forehead from about five feet away. If there is a genuine risk, are any practical prevention measures being implemented? No, I thought not. Because the risk is just too minuscule to warrant any. But that doesn't stop a Thai expert getting up on his soap box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrerakiss Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 ebola comes from the same country that brings in those nice drug dealers, mules & scammers no crackdown on them ? Well they have to carry their original passport with them at all times. That's a crackdown. And they can't do an in and out border run, that's another crackdown. And they have to.......oh never mind, the list of crackdowns is endless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MESmith Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Too many people on this planet. Time for a correction. This might be it. Sat next to a sweating person on a flight from Nigeria. Connecting flight to........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblecat Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 ebola comes from the same country that brings in those nice drug dealers, mules & scammers no crackdown on them ? What, Guineans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bell Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Nothing a good course of antibiotics won't cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bell Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) ebola comes from the same country that brings in those nice drug dealers, mules & scammers no crackdown on them ? What, Guineans? I see by the change in font size that you had to google, then copy and paste that. Edited July 30, 2014 by Deacon Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 wow, now this is scary shit. My sore throat just got worse ... Maybe you just got Dengue, Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblecat Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 ebola comes from the same country that brings in those nice drug dealers, mules & scammers no crackdown on them ? What, Guineans? I see by the change in font size that you had to google, then copy and paste that. ha ha, yeah I did- I kept get the spelling wrong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bell Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 wow, now this is scary shit. My sore throat just got worse ... Maybe you just got Dengue, Jim. Antibiotics lad. All the security staff and parking attendants prescribe them. 5 days and you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I'm supposed to be flying into Bangkok with Qatar airways in January. I'm wondering if I should change to someone else. Knee jerk reaction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 EBOLA OUTBREAKAll arrivals from West Africa to be monitored NANTIDA PUANGTHONG, TANATPONG KONGSAI THE NATION, AGENCIES Thai authorities join the rest of the world in controlling spread of the deadly Ebola virus BANGKOK: -- THAI AUTHORITIES have joined the rest of the world in monitoring the spread of the Ebola virus and are closely screening all arrivals from West Africa, a source at the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Countries across the world have raised their alert over the outbreak in West Africa after a doctor in charge of an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone became the latest victim of the deadly virus this week. The United Kingdom regards the outbreak as a "serious threat", and a commercial airliner has suspended all flights to two African countries. Dr Sheik Umar Khan succumbed to the virus on Tuesday, according to the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF). "Dr Omar Khan died at 2pm," Brima Kargbo, chief of Sierra Leone's health services, announced. Dr Khan was admitted to a treatment facility run by MSF after he tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa poses a "very serious threat". He made the point just before chairing a meeting with COBRA, the UK government's crisis response committee tasked with assessing the country's preparation to cope with any possible outbreak of the disease. The UK Department of Health confirmed that one person in Britain was tested for the virus but tests had proved negative. Reports suggest that this person had travelled from West Africa to central England. Meanwhile, Pan-African ASKY Airlines announced on Tuesday that it was suspending all flights to and from the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two countries that have been hit by the Ebola outbreak. This move by the Togo-based carrier came after the death of one of its passengers who had been travelling from Liberia to Nigeria via the Togo capital of Lome. The 40-year-old man, an employee of the Liberian government, died in Lagos on Friday in what was Nigeria's first confirmed death from Ebola. The source at the Foreign Ministry said Thai officials were checking the travel history and health condition of all travellers from West Africa before allowing them into the Kingdom. Dr Wongwat Liulak, who heads the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's Disease Control Division, reckoned there is a possibility that during the virus's incubation period, some infected persons may not be aware they are carriers and hence continued travelling. He added that the virus was transmitted via direct contact with the blood, body fluids and tissues of infected humans or animals. High fever is one of the key symptoms of Ebola virus disease or Ebola haemorrhagic fever. No infections in Thailand So far, there have been no Ebola infections in Thailand. "But the Public Health Ministry is closely monitoring the situation," Wongsawat said, adding that Thailand had experience in controlling some epidemics before, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome. Meanwhile, the non-profit organisations that have lost two American employees to the virus have closed their Liberia treatment centre due to civil disturbances and plan to evacuate 60 members of staff due to the disease risk. Protesters apparently "got out of hand" outside an Ebola treatment centre in Foya, near the Guinean border, leading the two North Carolina-based agencies to shut it down, Bruce Johnson, an executive with SIM USA, said. "It was a growing civil unrest and the local authorities were not able to secure the situation," Johnson said. Ebola has claimed 672 human lives in four West African nations since March, the worst outbreak since the virus was first reported in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. The Ebola virus first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus, for which there is no known cure so far, starts with high fever, followed by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and later bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose. As many as 90 per cent of the infected are killed by the virus. The World Health Organisation said in a statement on Sunday that there have been 1,200 infections so far this year. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/All-arrivals-from-West-Africa-to-be-monitored-30239873.html [thenation]2014-07-31[/thenation] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 A nonsense political trolling post has been removed as well as a reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 No infections in Thailand That's the fastest lab result of 60 million people ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Its strange we are now hearing that Ebola can travel and governments are now taking it seriously, what are we not being told thats what i worry about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bell Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 (edited) Time for all airlines to halt all international flights in countries with infections. It could take just one case of infection at an airport to go global. The cost of doing so for 1-2 weeks could well save the human race. Or at least some of it. I think the iron stomach and immune system of Isaan's flesh eaters could survive. Edited July 31, 2014 by Deacon Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tham1 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 No ploblem just go Pharmacy and use Tiger Balm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utley Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Those dam Americans are interfering again. Why can't they learn to mind their own business: U.S. investment and trade will spur employment—and that's essential to ending the poverty that helps spread the disease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attrayant Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 No ploblem just go Pharmacy and use Tiger Balm I don't even need that! I've got an amulet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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