EBOLA OUTBREAK
Monitoring continues : Thai Public Health Ministry

BANGKOK: -- Thailand is now monitoring 79 people who have travelled through countries hit by the Ebola virus, Opas Karnkavinpong, deputy director general of the Disease Control Department, Public Health Ministrysaid on Wednesday.

Since June 8, 483 people who have travelled through the affected countries have entered Thailand. As of Wednesday, 404 of them have gone past the 21day incubation period, the doctor said, adding that just 79 were still be monitored. Of the 79, one is Thai and the rest are foreign.

He added that monitoring is more effective that than screening arrivals at the airports with a thermostat machine, as this could not detect fevers that might have reduced by antipyretics.

Moreover the Ebola virus is not airborne, and it is thus not necessary to monitor passengers on a flight.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Monitoring-continues-Thai-Public-Health-Ministry-30240828.html

[thenation]2014-08-13[/thenation]

Thailand declares Ebola dangerous contagion
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BANGKOK, Aug 14 -- Thailand's Ministry of Public Health has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) the country's sixth most dangerous communicable disease and requires a report on every case of patients discovered.

Dr Narong Sahamethapat, Permanent Secretary, said the declaration was signed today and would take effect one day after it was published in the Royal Gazette.

Ebola is thus included in Thailand's list of hazardous infectious diseases in addition to cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, plague, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

The Ministry of Public Health also declares Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Lagos, Nigeria as EVD contagious areas.

The declaration was intended to warn people, but travel to the areas has not been banned, Dr Narong said.

In the past 79 days, 483 people arrived in Thailand from the countries having the Ebola outbreak and all of them remain healthy, Dr Narong said.

The World Health Organization reported 1,848 EVD patients overall with a death toll of 1,013.

The fatality rate of the disease dropped to 60 per cent due to experienced medical personnel and more precautions being taken. (MCOT online news)

[tna]2014-08-14[/tna]

Yesterday it was Opas, today it's Narongs turn to monitor the class.

Anyone knows if they monitor have some preventive measure those miracle 7 doctors/nurses who just returned from medical mission in Africa?

EBOLA is a very serious thing and Thailand should be monitoring all those who come here from countries with the disease but Thailand is not an isolated country like OZ or NZ, it has land borders with 4 other countries.

 

How prepared are those countries and are they monitoring arrivals ?

 

Should EBOLA get into Lao or Cambodia for instance, it is not a matter of will it get to Thailand but how long will it take.

 

Indeed there is a far greater area connected by land so there really needs to be a coordinated regional plan.

Four announcements made in government gazette to better prepare for Ebola cases

BANGKOK, 14 August 2014 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has issued four announcements in the government gazette that are aimed at preventing any spread of Ebola in Thailand.

Ministry permanent secretary, Dr. Narong Sahamethaphat, explained that the four announcements included the announcement making Ebola a hazardous disease, the announcement that any patient with Ebola must lodge a report to police, the announcement that Ebola is a contagious disease, and the announcement that Ebola source countries constituted risky areas.

The four announcements have already taken effect, after they were listed on the government gazette on Wednesday. According to Dr. Narong, the initiative will allow for better screening of those infected, as well as better curbing of the deadly disease, in the event of detection.

Health officials have kept an eye on 79 foreigners who arrived from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria for the virus. So far, there have been no reports of any suspicious symptoms or any signs of any of them harboring the disease.

[nnt]2014-08-14[/nnt]

Well holy shyt, my girlfriend just started coughing up blood.. She has been ill the past 3 days with a bad fever and feeling weak and 'beaten' and no coughing up phlegm and blood. Whatever it is, time to go to the doctor tomorrow as she won't go to the hospital now, but lets hope it isn't ebola guys