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Home » Health » Dengue - dengue fever » More than 8.000 cases of dengue fever in the past two months
The Ministry of Health wants to accelerate its efforts to combat dengue, with more than 8.000 patients added in the past two months.
The Secretary General of Health Sopon Mekthon announced the figures released by the Bureau of Epidemiology. In the past two months, a total of 8.651 people were infected with dengue (dengue fever). Dengue is a dangerous disease that can be deadly. The number of infections is twice as high as in the same period last year. It seems that the outbreak is as serious as in 2013 when 150.000 were infected.
The ministry has instructed all hospitals to properly examine the patient if dengue is suspected and to make the correct diagnosis. The government will intensify the public information campaign. The public should be alert to mosquito breeding grounds around homes, schools and workplaces.
You can read here how you can prevent yourself from being infected with dengue: Beware of dengue fever in (sub)tropical countries »
Source: Pattaya Mail
Alarming story, especially when you almost go to Thailand. Is/are there known areas where the mosquito is mainly active?
we have just returned from Koh Pangan, Koh Tao and Bangkok… no problems. In jungle areas it can be different. But be a little careful yourself, for example between 16.00 and 18.00 pm and with containers containing water ... have fun.
Dengue came up in a discussion here last week. When I mentioned the fact that in India one can go to a hospital and then be out again a few days later, some commenters were rather condescending. Something that prevented me from responding to it. Now that there's a topic dedicated to this, I'd like to do it anyway.
Dengue is NOT new, but has been around for a long time. The fact that a number of people are only now hearing about it and therefore assume that there are no medicines for it is ignorance. As the link above shows, it was known at least in 1987, but it existed much earlier. In the area in India where I go, they suffer from dengue 10 out of 12 months. And there are so many people living in India that the hospitals there received people with dengue DAILY for 10 months. for years. Perhaps you can now understand that after all these years they really know what to do about it. Don't ask me which medicines because I don't speak Hindi. It is also not the case that our Western hospitals have a monopoly on wisdom. Dengue does not occur in our country, so they have no solution for it. It is not necessarily the case that you are always better off in a Western hospital.
Another example: malaria. People think malaria is fatal. Yes, if you do not receive treatment in time, you will. But I also visit Gambia, for example. And if you get the symptoms of malaria there and you go to the hospital asap: 98% chance of survival. The health care there may be downright bad, but they do have malaria patients every day. If you arrive at a hospital and have a broken leg, you can still do it. If you have something wrong with your intestines, make sure you get to the Netherlands. Do you have malaria, oooo, it's nothing to worry about, just lie down here for a while and you'll be outside again tomorrow.
In other words: for the treatment of a disease, you should not be in the rich west, but in the area where the disease is most common. No matter how rich, poor or underdeveloped people are there, but over time they have a method of treatment. So yes, also for dengue.