Category: Health Maintenance

The Disease Control Department has reported Thailand’s eighth confirmed monkeypox case, in a 23-year-old Thai man who recently returned home from Qatar, Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong, director-general of the department said today (Friday).   He said that the man had developed a fever, headache, rashes and then blisters on his body before he arrived in Bangkok […]

4,668,863 total confirmed cases   32,564 total deaths   Daily average numbers reported from 01–14 September 2022   1,128* new confirmed cases per day   *(including hospital admissions only)   19 deaths per day   1,663 people recovered per day   15,756 vaccinations per day   Source: World Health Organization

Efficacy tests on the Favipiravir anti-viral drug in the treatment of COVID-19 patients conducted in Thailand cannot be compared with the tests undertaken in the Americas, because of the different methodology used in the tests, according to Dr. Somsak Akksilp, director-general of Thailand’s Medical Services Department.   Dr. Somsak’s statement was in response to a […]

A water expert at Rangsit University’s Centre for Climate Change and Disasters, Dr. Seri Suparatit, has advised people living in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces to look after themselves as much as possible during the forecast flooding in September a…

The use of smallpox vaccine to inoculate humans against monkeypox does not work, because it does not generate the immunity required to prevent monkeypox infection, according to Dr. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the Medical Sciences Department, t…

2022 QUARTER 2 OVERVIEWIn Apr-Jun 2022, Greater Mekong subregion (GMS) countries reported 49 339 malaria cases.CambodiaCambodia reported 1216 cases, a 43% increase compared to the same time period in 2021. P. falciparum + mixed cases and P. vivax const…