BMA watching Nana area as part of Monkeypox measures
BANGKOK Governor Chadchart Sittipunt today (July 25) unveiled measures to handle Monkeypox in the metropolis with one of them being monitoring Nana area where there are Nigerians living together and taking proactive action if need be, Naewna newspaper said. The steps were taken after the World Health Organisation had activated its highest alert level […]
Read MoreMonkeypox ‘a mild disease that is difficult to control’
A PROMINENT virologist said in a Facebook post today (July 25) that Monkeypox is a mild disease with mortality rate likely to be less than 3 in 10,000, especially among the most vulnerable, but difficult to control, INN News said. Dr. Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at the Faculty […]
Read MoreMonkeypox escapee held in Phnom Penh, declared persona non grata
CAMBODIA confirmed that a Nigerian man infected with Monkeypox who had escaped medical treatment in Thailand was arrested last night (July 23) and he is now under the care of a medical team at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, Sanook.com said today. The head of Phnom Penh’s Chamkamon district Mr. Thein Sothom announced the arrest of the […]
Read MoreMonkeypox escapee has likely fled to Cambodia
POLICE tracked the Nigerian man infected with Monkeypox and is Thailand’s first such case to the Thai-Cambodian border with his mobile phone signal having been picked up at Sa Kaeo province bordering Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (July 23). Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, the head of the Public Health Ministry’s Disease […]
Read MorePhuket chasing Monkeypox-infected Nigerian man after he escaped
PHUKET is rushing to track down a Nigerian man who is the country’s first Monkeypox case as he did not return to the hospital for treatment, switched off his mobile phone and moved out of a condo and hotel he was staying in as police closed in on him, Sanook.com said. The Public Health Ministry’s […]
Read More3 suspected monkeypox cases ‘found to be infected with herpes’
THE PUBLIC HEALTH Ministry confirmed today (May 29) that three persons suspected to have been infected with monkeypox were found to have caught herpes, Matichon newspaper said. Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, the head of the Disease Control Department, reassured that no monkeypox cases had emerged in this country with the three suspected cases having been […]
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