webfact Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thailand buys Ebola detection kits from Germany and ChinaBy Digital ContentBANGKOK, Aug 26 -- Thailand is buying Ebola detection kits from German and China, it was revealed today.The Thai Public Health Ministry's Department of Medical Sciences has purchased three different sets of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits from Germany and China to help detect possible Ebola virus in Thailand.Medical Sciences director Dr Apichai Mongkol unveiled the newly-purchased Ebola detection kits today, saying the department bought two kits from Germany and one from China for a total of Bt900,000.The department has already received two of the kits from Germany and China.Dr Apichai said each Ebola detection kit contains necessary medicines and equipment to perform 100 tests. The result of each test could be known within 5-8 hours with 90 per cent accuracy.He said the test should be conducted within a highly-secured laboratory using PRC system, where the infected patients' body fluids would be examined.For the most accurate result, he said samples of a patient’s body fluids must be tested three times using the three different kits.Dr Apichai said the department plans to request Bt57 million from the Public Health Ministry to build and operate a highly-secured laboratory for conducting Ebola tests.The fund will also be used to train department personnel in epidemiology and how to handle an outbreak of a dangerous disease. (MCOT online news)-- TNA 2014-08-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thailand Posted August 27, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2014 I wonder if they don't detect Ebola will they work for bombs? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyBowskill Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Not sure I would wanna trust my life to anything made in China............... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaidam Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I wonder if they don't detect Ebola will they work for bombs? depends which card you slide in. One machine to detect a multitude of substances? Here we go again.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasset Tak Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hmm Bt 57 million for a high security lab... Thailand should invest more and build a BSL-4 grade facility instead as it will be needed in the future! Today Europe have 8 BSL-4 classified labs and US lists 15 and not a single one is listed in a ASEAN country! maybe Thailand could build one and become the "HUB" for disease control in ASEAN as Thailand likes to be the "HUB" for many things...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 " And third place in this year's " Imperial Stormtrooper Lookalike" competition winning a year's supply of Mama goes to...." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeegator Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 depends which card you slide in. One machine to detect a multitude of substances? Here we go again.... "One machine to detect a multitude of substances? Here we go again..." Here we go again, another poster making up his own version of what was actually reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornell Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I hope they are more effective than the explosive detection devices!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasset Tak Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Not sure I would wanna trust my life to anything made in China...............Atleast they are not made in UK like GT200 the fake bomb detectors.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surangw Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 big commissions paid on this deal ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbradster Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I wonder if they will bring live ebola to Thailand to test if the kits work? Let's hope for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeENZ Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Probably just slapped a sticker on the Gt-2000s and called them an ebola detector... I hope they are wearing a lot of amulets.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sena Dave Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Not sure I would wanna trust my life to anything made in China............... I'm sure I wouldn't either , I'd rather take my chances with Ebola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddermax Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I know which of the three I would prefer to use!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurentbkk Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 well at least Thailand did something ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Lets hope they wont be needed , IF we depend on the governments of this world to contain Ebola i think we are in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamNoone88 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Oh I see, it's a poorly fitting Ebola protection suit, well half a suit anyway - the rest must be in the post. I thought it was a new mega-project announcement of a Thai space program and he was the rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spermwhale Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 This is so idiotic. Even the medical community here is acting as ignorantly as the villagers in the countries now affected by this strain of ebola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrblue Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Not sure I would wanna trust my life to anything made in China............... would you trust better something made in thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 How does that contraption standing behind the two men with ties detect Ebola? Looks like a ghost with a face shield to me. Anyway...I hope the detectors work better than that batch of bomb detectors worked.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siampolee Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 This purchase from the country that wishes to be ''The Hub of Medical Treatment?'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Not sure I would wanna trust my life to anything made in China............... You wouldn't believe how many hi-tec products made in USA or Germany are just assembled there from Chinese parts. China has now good quality as well....but than the price advantage isn't that great anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tham1 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 good to see a CRACKDOWN on Ebola....add it to the never ending list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby nz Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Cant believe how many silly buggers there are posting on this topic. Ebola is a very serious disease, try reading up on it and you might realize just what could happen if it got into this country. There has already been one lady quarantined who arrived from one of the affected African countries, she showed signs that may have been Ebola but now has been cleared. These kits are used in other parts of the world and to get an accurate result all three different models are combined, this negates any errors that may occur from only using one. It gives a quick result and means there is no need for a lengthy quarantine period in a secure unit for anyone suspected of having the disease. No doubt if nothing was done and Ebola got into this country the same whiners would be into it with "Why was nothing done" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrblue Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) a nine year old girl died using an uzi in a fire range... wrong things in the wrong hands are useless and dangerous... do I need to explain further? a silly bugger Edited August 28, 2014 by mrblue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partington Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) This worrying and scepticism isn't justified, though the cost seems odd. A PCR test kit is not a machine, or a suit, or an advanced dangerous probe that you point at something. It is just a few vials of liquid. It is a way of detecting specific sequences of virus DNA or RNA that may be present in a sample. A virus is almost entirely composed of RNA or DNA containing a coding sequence of many thousands of letters, and not much else. Because these long sequences of letters in each virus are unique, just like paragraph from a book in English, the detection of a specific sequence of say 400 letters completely and accurately proves that the virus known to contain that unique sequence really is present. The test in principle is simple- it is done by adding a few volumes of different liquids, plus your sample, to a tiny tube, and running it through 30 to 40 cycles of different temperatures - a cycle could be, for example 1 minute at 90C° followed by 2minutes at 60°C. If the DNA/RNA sequence you are trying to find is present in the sample the amount will be amplified from a few molecules to a point where there is sufficient mass of it that you can physically see the 400 letter fragment under UV light. Each of the three kits will detect a different unique 100 or more letter sequence of the Ebola RNA , and so detecting three different unique Ebola sequences is completely sufficient to prove you have Ebola in your sample. There is no danger, or lethal machinery that can cause harm in these kits! The surprising thing is the reported price, since anything over around $2000US for a kit seems ridiculous. I'm guessing that the price is misreported and includes other related equipment and supplies not involved in the test, e.g. biohazard suits, that may have been bought at the same time, otherwise they were robbed! EDIT: just found one in a catalogue for 599 euros! genekam.de/products/ebola-virus-test Edited August 28, 2014 by partington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 a nine year old girl died using an uzi in a fire range... wrong things in the wrong hands are useless and dangerous... do I need to explain further? a silly bugger Ooops, if you referring to the incident on the firing range in the US yesterday - it was the instructor shot in the head by the nine year old girl. Suggest to scan your PC for the ebola virus, seems to giving you the wrong info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrblue Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 a nine year old girl died using an uzi in a fire range... wrong things in the wrong hands are useless and dangerous... do I need to explain further? a silly bugger Ooops, if you referring to the incident on the firing range in the US yesterday - it was the instructor shot in the head by the nine year old girl.Suggest to scan your PC for the ebola virus, seems to giving you the wrong info. yes, that one! didn't read, heard somewhere... but anyway the meaning of my post is still the same! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 good news for thai people, to get the test for free, farangs will pay 300% the purchase price for a test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newermonkey Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Looking at the special suit behind, it apears that some femails in the south and other arab countries are good to go already, only difference is between black and white.They should hire these women to help handle the ebola cases, beleive me they will be fine... ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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