News Forum - Chiang Mai faces dual health threat: Monkeypox cases and rising dengue fever

[Thaiger]

Monkeypox (mpox) has found its way into Chiang Mai, with two confirmed cases reported, according to Chiang Mai Provincial Public Health Office. The office also raised an alarm over an escalating number of dengue fever patients, which it estimates to surpass 5,000 in the province’s capital. The two individuals afflicted by mpox are reportedly homosexual … …

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[HolyCowCm]

Dengue Fever spreading around CM, seems we need to be on mosquito alert. Funny that the article doesn't say it is spread by the Tiger Mosquito. 

Monkey Pox is also in CM and possible to spread, and this is thank you primarily from non hetero sexual males, not to forgot the ones who can testdrive any hole of sexual orientation as well. Not that I have problem with them as I do have some as friends, but I do when they are lax or irresponsdible, so more caution on their part needs to be taken as it is probably more easily spread with the cold and fly season coming up.

Be carfeful and aware of your surrounding and people around you. Sneezes and coughs can count. Sound familiar from the last 3 years?

Bangkok Hospital website posted:

 

Monkeypox can spread from:

Animals to humans through direct contact with any animal that bites. Contact with bodily fluids, including blood, puss, and saliva from infected animal can introduce the virus into humans as well as eating uncooked infected meat.

Humans to humans transmission occur from direct contact with droplets from coughing sneezing, rashes, pusses, and other infectious bodily fluids, which tend to come from sharing items.

 

 

 

 

[ChrisS]

Just the sort of new T.A.T will not like spreading across the world. Imagine if the Chinese hoards found out :)