4 governors told to help Thai health officials in containing Zika virus

[webfact]

4 governors told to help health officials in containing Zika virus

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Interior Ministry has ordered governors of four provinces where there was a high incidence of Zika virus infection to cooperate with the Public Health Ministry in the efforts to contain the spread of the virus.

 

The instruction from the Interior permanent secretar Krisda Boonrach to the governors of Chanthaburi, Petchabun, Bung Karn and Chiang Mai provinces followed a report from the diseases control and prevention centre of the European Union which placed Thailand on the Red Level for the spread of Zika virus in the past three months.

 

The governors were told to launch a publicity campaign in their respective provinces to warn people, especially pregnant women, to protect themselves from mosquito bites, especially striped mosquitoes, and to get rid of larvae of mosquitoes in water sources.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/4-governors-told-help-health-officials-containing-zika-virus/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-08-29

[jamesbrock]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

to protect themselves from mosquito bites, especially striped mosquitoes

 

"Quick check whether that mozzie that just landed on you is a striped one!!"

[Wilsonandson]

Countries or territories with reported confirmed autochthonous cases of Zika virus infection in the past three months, as of 19 August 2016   - See more at: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/zika_virus_infection/zika-outbreak/Pages/epidemiological-situation.aspx#sthash.nF7tmHhK.dpuf

[PatOngo]

And the response was.........double the price of insect spray! There's a nice little earner here!

[ClutchClark]

Jokes aside.

 

This is not good news at all.

 

Particularly in a country that does not practice abortion.

 

There are going to be 1,000's of babies born who will need long term medical care and will have a life of suffering.

[edwinchester]

Abortion is legal in Thailand although for good reason most women who have one will keep the fact to themselves.

 

 

[bangon04]

Surely they mean 4 governors told to help health officials by continuing to under report cases of Zika virus

[Chookie]

Didn't some Thai doctors claim to have invented a cure for Zika? Or was that Ebola? Or AIDS?

 

Might have been poverty...

 

Chook

[Maestro]

Thailand on ‘red alert’

THE NATION August 30, 2016 1:00 am

 

Country had most cases of any in Southeast Asia over last 3 months.

 

PEOPLE in Thailand urgently need to help to control the breeding of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit the Zika virus, Department of Disease Control chief Dr Amnuay Gajeena said yesterday.

 

Provinces where people with the Zika virus are being treated were also instructed to immediately set up an emergency operations centre to |contain any outbreaks.

 

Amnuay said his office had asked the Foreign Affairs Ministry to review available data and clarify the progress of the disease with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

 

The ECDC website cited Thailand as a "red alert" country with increasing or widespread Zika virus transmissions. 

The country has had the highest number of Zika patients in Southeast Asia within the last three months. 

 

The rise of detected Zika infections reflected growing awareness, disease-monitoring measures, diagnosis and information disclosures meeting international standards, Amnuay said.

 

He said health officials continued to implement intensive measures to curb infections since the virus was declared a contagious disease under the 2105 Communicable Disease Act. 

 

Cases must be reported to govt

 

The designation means that any detected cases must be reported to health authorities.

 

Thailand is following the World Health Organisation's advice to fight the disease, Amnuay said, including implementing surveillance of epidemiology, vector conditions, newborn birth defects and related nervous system illnesses.

 

Amnuay said all state agencies were cooperating in control efforts, including the Interior Ministry, which ordered provincial officials to work with the Public Health Ministry and inform communities about how to eradicate Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae. 

 

Provinces where Zika infections had been detected had been told to set up district and provincial-level emergency operations centres, he added.

 

The Zika virus causes fever, skin rashes, body aches and headaches, which normally clear up in one week. 

 

Although infections do not pose major health risks for most people, the virus can pose serious problems for pregnant women as epidemiological evidence suggests a link to birth defects called microcephaly and other brain deformities in foetuses.

 

More information is available at the Disease Control Department hotline 1422.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Thailand-on-red-alert-30294062.html

[Wilsonandson]

Chanthaburi, Petchabun, Bung Karn and Chiang Mai provinces.
Just some of the provinces with Zika virus outbreaks. There are 10 provinces so far with outbreaks according to news reports this month with over 100 reported cases of Zika virus infected cases.

Here is the only map I can find of Thailand with some of the zika virus outbreak shown. Why, after many hours searching the Thai interweb isn't there a map of all 100 or more outbreaks for people to see the state of the infection spread and place of most risk?

Is this a coverup?

More information please!!!

A more up to date map needs to be provided by the current government health ministry.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/279308812_fig1_Figure-2-Map-of-Thailand-showing-locations-of-confirmed-Zika-virus-ZIKV-infections-1