Food poisoning cases expected to rise late this summer

BANGKOK, 15 May 2015 (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health has encouraged people to eat only cooked and hot meals, as more patients with diarrhea are expected to increase by the end of summer.

Department of Disease Control Director-General Dr. Sopon Mekthon said the recent survey has revealed that the number of people eating half-cooked meals or raw meat has declined by 4.5 percent.

However, 14 percent more people have refused to use a serving spoon when sharing food among family members between 2014 and 2015.

Respondents have also become more aware of common diseases in summer. From 2003 to 2015, an average of 130,000 people in Thailand suffered from food poisoning each year. Most of them were found in the North and Northeast, and figures increased in late summer.

Less than ten people, mostly children and farmers, died from dysentery during the same period. Dr. Sopon encouraged people to eat hot meals and use serving spoons when sharing food to reduce food poisoning risks.

Food poisoning symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea and fever. The Director General recommended drinking plenty of saline beverages if anyone is found to have severe diarrhea.

However, food poisoning victims must be taken to the hospital if their condition does not improve or if traces of blood are found in their stool.


-- NNT 2015-05-15

Isn't going to happen here... I do my own cooking. The alcohol poisoning might get me... but not the food.

Are they pulling these numbers out their butts?

Are they pulling these numbers out their butts?

Possibly not pulling, it might be running out?

I only buy Food only at Foodland. Better safe then sorry.

Food at home is fine, if just us. If family come to eat, I take my own portions out first. One or two might try the serving spoon for the novelty value but quickly revert to their own spoons or fingers. Food eaten outside is a lottery. I just accept that as an environmental health officer in England once told me, Asians have a "different standard of hygene" to Brits, i.e. none. No matter who comes to eat at our house from whatever strata of Thai society, the basin and soap in the hongnam are always dry when they leave. Mai bpen rai, I just learn to live with the occasional sh*ts.

Food at home is fine, if just us. If family come to eat, I take my own portions out first. One or two might try the serving spoon for the novelty value but quickly revert to their own spoons or fingers. Food eaten outside is a lottery. I just accept that as an environmental health officer in England once told me, Asians have a "different standard of hygene" to Brits, i.e. none. No matter who comes to eat at our house from whatever strata of Thai society, the basin and soap in the hongnam are always dry when they leave. Mai bpen rai, I just learn to live with the occasional sh*ts.

Are you saying that the Brits have the top hygienic standards ?? That is not the case.

.......have refused to share the serving spoon between 2014 and 2015. That was a long lunch.

Why shoot, strangle or push annoying family members or sugar daddies of the balcony if a meal from the next hawker stall does the same job?

Food at home is fine, if just us. If family come to eat, I take my own portions out first. One or two might try the serving spoon for the novelty value but quickly revert to their own spoons or fingers. Food eaten outside is a lottery. I just accept that as an environmental health officer in England once told me, Asians have a "different standard of hygene" to Brits, i.e. none. No matter who comes to eat at our house from whatever strata of Thai society, the basin and soap in the hongnam are always dry when they leave. Mai bpen rai, I just learn to live with the occasional sh*ts.

Are you saying that the Brits have the top hygienic standards ?? That is not the case.

If you read it properly you'll find that he isn't saying that at all.

I never increased when I suffered from diarrhea. Must be a Thai habit.

maybe make the kids learn what hygiene is in school ?

but as there is hardly soap in their toilets ...

Food at home is fine, if just us. If family come to eat, I take my own portions out first. One or two might try the serving spoon for the novelty value but quickly revert to their own spoons or fingers. Food eaten outside is a lottery. I just accept that as an environmental health officer in England once told me, Asians have a "different standard of hygene" to Brits, i.e. none. No matter who comes to eat at our house from whatever strata of Thai society, the basin and soap in the hongnam are always dry when they leave. Mai bpen rai, I just learn to live with the occasional sh*ts.

It seems terrible I will suggest do not eat family member that are pigs are you a slave a piece of SH## that you eat with them