Military officers checked after marine's mystery illness
The Nation



Chon Buri - Ninety military officers have been placed under surveillance for meningococcal disease after a marine developed suspicious symptoms and died on Sunday, Vice Admiral Thanakan Kraikruan, Commander of the Royal Thai Marine Corps, said yesterday.

Thanakan dismissed as untrue a rumour on Thai social media of a meningococcal disease outbreak following the death of the 26-year-old navy private who had a blood infection.

The private in question had trained for two months at the Naval Education Department's Recruit Training Centre before he was inducted into the corps. Thanakan said he developed high fever, fatigue and dehydration on Saturday night. He was rushed to Naval Medical Department's Sirikit Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

After an initial lab test suggested this might be a meningococcal disease, Thanakan instructed the private's supervisors to bring 90 close contacts from previous and current facilities to a 15-day surveillance as a precaution. They included hundreds of fellow new recruits who were also submitted to health check-up and to take Ciprofloxacin.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Military-officers-checked-after-marines-mystery-il-30264066.html


-- The Nation 2015-07-09

So only officers were placed under surveillance?

They don't care about the enlisted men?

Or are all people in the Thai military officers?

So only officers were placed under surveillance?

They don't care about the enlisted men?

Or are all people in the Thai military officers?

You have to read more than the headline, and understand that "officers" is a generic term for military personnel.

"They included hundreds of fellow new recruits........."

They aren't all recruited as officers. That is reserved for nice boys like Chalerm's son.

So only officers were placed under surveillance?

They don't care about the enlisted men?

Or are all people in the Thai military officers?

You have to read more than the headline, and understand that "officers" is a generic term for military personnel.

"They included hundreds of fellow new recruits........."

They aren't all recruited as officers. That is reserved for nice boys like Chalerm's son.

"Enlisted troops" are never referred to as "officers" in any military organization.

Sounds like the marine officer was suffering from seasonal juntanitas.

Treatment: Get plenty of arrests and take away two civil liberties a day.

Symptoms will absolutely clear.

But for flag officers the disease may take years to cure.

So only officers were placed under surveillance?

They don't care about the enlisted men?

Or are all people in the Thai military officers?

You have to read more than the headline, and understand that "officers" is a generic term for military personnel.

"They included hundreds of fellow new recruits........."

They aren't all recruited as officers. That is reserved for nice boys like Chalerm's son.

"Enlisted troops" are never referred to as "officers" in any military organization.

Last time I looked, The Nation wasn't a military organisation. Things may have changed.

Sounds like the marine officer was suffering from seasonal juntanitas.

Treatment: Get plenty of arrests and take away two civil liberties a day.

Symptoms will absolutely clear.

But for flag officers the disease may take years to cure.

Very classy, making political jokes about a man's illness and death. As a private ranked enlisted man he is surely responsible for the ills you perceive beset the country.

I hold myself solely responsible for the Viet Nam War.

Chicken pox from their coup?

I don't think taking ciprofloflaxin is the answer to this apparent outbreak although it is a broad spectrum antibiotic drug more tests should be done .