PM calls for destruction of mosquito breeding grounds

[rooster59]

PM calls for destruction of mosquito breeding grounds

BANGKOK: PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed health agencies to call on the public to destroy mosquito-breeding areas every seven days.

"They must do this at home, at work, schools, childcare centres and also public places," he said yesterday during his weekly programme about efforts to contain outbreaks of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF).

Aedes mosquitoes can spread DHF, which caught media attention this month after news of well-known actor Tridsadee Sahawong fighting for his life due to this disease.

DHF has already hit more than 100,000 people this year, and killed over 100 people. Prayut said he has instructed the Public Health Ministry to improve diagnostic procedures at all hospitals to ensure DHF patients are properly diagnosed in time so they can recover.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/PM-calls-for-destruction-of-mosquito-breeding-grou-30273424.html

-- The Nation 2015-11-21

[amerasianex]

That's the best and most critical battle to fight. People do not realize the lives and economic toll mosquitos play on the country. It's the worst. Number one killer..... Has been for centuries. Mosquito's have killed more people than all wars combined.....

[Robbie Dye]

This is creating quite a buzz!

[Bakseeda]

At last Pattaya will be destroyed..!

[noitom]

This has been a Thai "initiative" for two decades. Any promises or "urgings" are merely Thai flatulence.

[catterwell]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

[Reigntax]

Is "mosquito" junta code for red shirt. If so the coup intention is now undertood.

[Alration]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

What do you think mosquitoes that are not "buzzing through the zone at the time" are doing, lounging around wearing gas masks, in an airtight safehouse waiting for evening to come out? Day or night, it doesn't matter.

Edited November 21, 2015 by Alration

[rethaier]

About time. Now will the call be heeded? I doubt it.

[Wilsonandson]

Nuke em!

[catterwell]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

What do you think mosquitoes that are not "buzzing through the zone at the time" are doing, lounging around wearing gas masks, in an airtight safehouse waiting for evening to come out? Day or night, it doesn't matter.

Aedes aegypti is very small, incredibly swift, and pretty smart. Other mosquitoes will hang around to finish their meal as you swat them; aegypti has abandoned its meal and is long gone before you've started the downswing. Likewise, after one whiff of incoming fog, aegypti has zapped off leaving other mosquitoes to die. If you hear that annoying buzz, it's not aegypti (1) because it avoids setting off alarms by going near ears and (2) because the high wing pitch is outside the normal human range. It generally targets ankles and lower legs. The fog does not affect the eggs, because the agents in the fog of of short life and because the eggs are sealed. Likewise, once the eggs become larvae, they are under the still water and unaffected by the passing aerobic wind.

The pellets in the still water take effect as the larvae emerge, killing them all with no exception. What's more, the effective kill power of the pellets is at least six months.

Having had four types of malaria plus two versions of DHF, I can perhaps be excused for having done some homework.

Edited November 21, 2015 by catterwell

[slapout]

About the only regular preventive work I have seen going on in southern area of CM (Paded) is the fire truck watering

the potted plants and flowers along the roadside at least 3 or more times a week. Maybe this is how they keep batteries

charged up to start the vehicles. I do note some of the hoses need replacement. They keep duck tape on a pipe stub on back of truck as their hose repair kit material.

Have not seen any foggers out in the past few months in our moo ban or near it and I am driving it evey day at various times. I use dish soap and bleach mixture to dump in the standing water around our house. I do not bother with the flowing fountian nor the fish tanks. Its all wife created and she will not or cannot understand the concern and action that can be taken.

[oncearugge]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

What do you think mosquitoes that are not "buzzing through the zone at the time" are doing, lounging around wearing gas masks, in an airtight safehouse waiting for evening to come out? Day or night, it doesn't matter.

Aedes aegypti is very small, incredibly swift, and pretty smart. Other mosquitoes will hang around to finish their meal as you swat them; aegypti has abandoned its meal and is long gone before you've started the downswing. Likewise, after one whiff of incoming fog, aegypti has zapped off leaving other mosquitoes to die. If you hear that annoying buzz, it's not aegypti (a) because it avoids setting off alarms by going near ears and ( because the high wing pitch is outside the normal human range. It generally targets ankles and lower legs. The fog does not affect the eggs, because the agents in the fog of of short life and because the eggs are sealed. Likewise, once the eggs become larvae, they are under the still water and unaffected by the passing aerobic wind.

The pellets in the still water take effect as the larvae emerge, killing them all with no exception. What's more, the effective kill power of the pellets is at least six months.

Having had four types of malaria plus two versions of DHF, I can perhaps be excused for having done some homework.

Including Plasmodium falciparum ?

Dengue is not usually serotyped in individual cases as there is no clinical reason/advantage in doing so .

The question therefore is how you know you have had 2 "versions" of Dengue ?

[wow64]

Who created these breeding grounds... I bet it's the last governments fault.

[T_Dog]

This has been a Thai "initiative" for two decades. Any promises or "urgings" are merely Thai flatulence.

I saw it for a decade and remember five public health employees coming through the neighborhood once talking about dengue and standing water. Did not see a single neighbor dump any water bowls that were full of water. The Mai Pen Rai runs deep in Thailand.

[oncearugge]

Who created these breeding grounds... I bet it's the last governments fault.

Flight range studies suggest that most female Ae. aegypti may spend their lifetime in or around the houses where they emerge as adults and they usually fly an average of 400 metres.*

If people were to clean up their environment the problem would be lessened.

*

http://www.who.int/denguecontrol/mosquito/en/

[ggt]

One should quarantine those infected with dengue fever...mosquito bites these folks then biting another human is how this dangerous disease is spread...

Concentrate on those areas where the cases of dengue fever are the highest first...

One would have to fog the whole of SE Asia to rid the country of this pest...

[oncearugge]

One should quarantine those infected with dengue fever...mosquito bites these folks then biting another human is how this dangerous disease is spread...

Concentrate on those areas where the cases of dengue fever are the highest first...

One would have to fog the whole of SE Asia to rid the country of this pest...

"One should quarantine those infected with dengue fever...mosquito bites these folks then biting another human is how this dangerous disease is spread..."

Have you informed the American CDC what they "should" be advising/doing?

Here are the contact details .............

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dengue Branch

1324 Calle Cañada

San Juan, Puerto Rico

00920-3860

[bangon04]

"Aedes mosquitoes can spread DHF, which caught media attention this month after news of well-known actor Tridsadee Sahawong fighting for his life due to this disease.

DHF has already hit more than 100,000 people this year, and killed over 100 people"

but it took a Thai "Superstar" to really get attention.... probably because he is more valuable than the other 100,000

[Dustdevil]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

At the Saudi base where I used to work, they sprayed at dusk.

[Dustdevil]

Mosquitoes are the State Bird of Florida. Fortunately very few of them spread any kind of disease. Back in the day of the Spanish Conquistadors, people were dropping like flies of malaria.

[bendejo]

Well, just admitting the problem exists is a breakthrough. I knew someone who contacted DHF in Bangkok in 2003 (he lived in the "Japan Town" area in Sukhumvit). Spoke to his doctor one day while visiting the hospital, he said that dengue cases, in a variety of forms, were not unusual.

The other forms of dengue are sort of like a bad flu, no fun to be sure but not as bad as DHF. There is a myth that dengue is something that only happens in dense, urban environments, but don't believe it. I know people in Brazil who've had it and they live in rural areas, in towns so small they aren't even on the map.

[oncearugge]

"Aedes mosquitoes can spread DHF, which caught media attention this month after news of well-known actor Tridsadee Sahawong fighting for his life due to this disease.

DHF has already hit more than 100,000 people this year, and killed over 100 people"

but it took a Thai "Superstar" to really get attention.... probably because he is more valuable than the other 100,000

Where did you get those figures ?

100,000 cases of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ? In Thailand ?

Please supply links to the data ...........

In the meantime please read and learn.

http://www.cdc.gov/dengue/epidemiology/

Edited November 21, 2015 by oncearugge

[jerojero]

Notwithstanding a valid topic or concern, is there anything this PM doesn't micromanage personally? Where are these Public Health Officials? What are they doing? Zip?

[oncearugge]

Notwithstanding a valid topic or concern, is there anything this PM doesn't micromanage personally? Where are these Public Health Officials? What are they doing? Zip?

What do you expect the "Public Health Officials " to do ?

If people refuse to clean up their environment then they must live with the consequence. !

[Rorri]

A near impossible task, just consider the number of mosquito breeding paddy fields, never mind all other still water areas.

[jpb1963]

any suggestions on the best preventative steps - personal spray on repellent i guess?

[catterwell]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

What do you think mosquitoes that are not "buzzing through the zone at the time" are doing, lounging around wearing gas masks, in an airtight safehouse waiting for evening to come out? Day or night, it doesn't matter.

Aedes aegypti is very small, incredibly swift, and pretty smart. Other mosquitoes will hang around to finish their meal as you swat them; aegypti has abandoned its meal and is long gone before you've started the downswing. Likewise, after one whiff of incoming fog, aegypti has zapped off leaving other mosquitoes to die. If you hear that annoying buzz, it's not aegypti (a) because it avoids setting off alarms by going near ears and ( because the high wing pitch is outside the normal human range. It generally targets ankles and lower legs. The fog does not affect the eggs, because the agents in the fog of of short life and because the eggs are sealed. Likewise, once the eggs become larvae, they are under the still water and unaffected by the passing aerobic wind.

The pellets in the still water take effect as the larvae emerge, killing them all with no exception. What's more, the effective kill power of the pellets is at least six months.

Having had four types of malaria plus two versions of DHF, I can perhaps be excused for having done some homework.

Including Plasmodium falciparum ?

Dengue is not usually serotyped in individual cases as there is no clinical reason/advantage in doing so .

The question therefore is how you know you have had 2 "versions" of Dengue ?

In my case, both instances were serotyped.

[PEAP]

A "Voice in the Wilderness". Heard by many but totally ignored!.

[Thai at Heart]

General fogging, which is what they normally do, catches only those mosquitoes that happen to be buzzing through the zone at the time - which is not too many, since most come out only in the evening. The district offices, responsible for the fogging, also provide (free of charge) small pellets. The mosquito responsible for DHF, aedes aegypti, lays its eggs only in still water. Place one pellet in any still water you can find and it will kill all mosquito larvae for about six months. Fogging looks good and dramatic, but pellets have more punch!

Not if u do the sewers. They are absolutely chock filled with mozzies. I dropped my keys down the drain once at night and we had to hook them out with a pole.

To say I was eaten alive was an understatement. Billions of them