Posted on 06/08/2013 10:04:58 PM PDT by TexGrill
NONTHABURI, Thailand - The drastic rise in haemorrhage dengue fever cases has prompted the Public Health Ministry to launch a massive nationwide campaign to cope with the situation.
There have been 44 deaths among the 39,029 patients in the past five months.
More than 23,000 schools nationwide have been instructed to eliminate mosquito-breeding sources such as water containers.
Revealing that about 50 per cent of the patients were children under-15, the Public Health Minister's permanent secretary, Dr Narong Sahamethaphat, expressed his concern over the rising number of people suffering from dengue fever and said the situation was very critical.
Only the past week, some 4,000 people had been affected, double the number in the previous two weeks.
The haemorrhage dengue fever has affected people of all age groups.
The ministry estimates that 26 provinces are affected. Songkhla province has the highest number of deaths at seven, followed by Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surin, and Loei with three deaths in each province.
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Simple solution.
Have government funded abortions for girls of all ages, and there won’t be enough kids for the mosquitoes to infect.
Since abortions aren’t counted as ‘deaths’, the death count should go way down.
Break bone fever
Perhaps, they’ve got a sever case of Disco Fever.
I have seen some Dengue in my area, and knew of one case
with the young daughter of an American expat. That was a several years ago and she recovered with no problems.
I have been lucky not to have a mosquito problem on my beach.
The ex-wife’s boyfriend just died from it.
“The ex-wife’s boyfriend just died from it.”
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Sorry for the loss, but a quick internet search says that
death is less then one percent, if treated. 10 percent if not treated.
Heheh. Not my loss! It doesn’t matter to me one way or the other. He didn’t get treated and got progressively worse.
Do you happen to know which provinces are affected?
Well, the article says “Songkhla province has the highest number of deaths at seven, followed by Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surin, and Loei with three deaths in each province.”
I wouldn’t make too much of that. Deaths are not a good indication of how severe the problem is in an area. Those are all poor areas where people would delay treatment anyway.
I know several people in the Pattaya area including the guy I mentioned in my post that got it. The infection rate could be much higher there but generally people would get treatment more promptly and of a better quality.
Anyplace there are mosquitoes, which is just about everywhere, is at risk. So you can’t really say an area is affected or not - just that some are worse than others.
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