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[neverdie]

They were fogging around here earlier today, my only fear is I wonder what they were actually spraying & how long until it kills me.  I have noticed theres been alot of cockroaches coming out of crevis's suffering slow agonising deaths....is this something to look forward to?

[exexpat]

Apparently South Thailand isn't the only one complacent and seeing massive increases:

http://www.hindu.com...0901201002.htm:

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Malaysia on guard for dengue fever as cases double
KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Malaysia's government urged people on Tuesday to protect themselves from dengue fever after infections and deaths caused by the mosquito-borne disease doubled in the first weeks of this year.

Eight people died of dengue through Jan. 17 this year, twice the number of fatalities in the same period of 2008, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

Dengue fever sickened   3,211 people in this Southeast Asian nation between Jan. 4-17, up from 1,514 cases in the same period of last year, the ministry said.

Authorities attributed the increase to a persistent rainy season and unsanitary conditions around homes that enable mosquitoes to thrive in stagnant water. More than half the cases occurred in Malaysia's largest city, Kuala Lumpur, and its neighboring state of Selangor.

``People are aware (of the threat) but they are not taking action,'' a ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public statements. ``Maybe they don't take it seriously if their family isn't affected.''

Asia is full of NIMF's (Nevermind if not my family) as the west is full of NIMBY's.   BTW, thats 247 people a day falling to dengue.

Edited by exexpat, 2009-02-11 17:21:36.

[Teflon]

Having worked in Africa for a decade I have had Malaria over a dozen times, in 2005 I got Dengue whilst on break in Thailand(from a golf trip down Chantaburi way) and can tell you it makes Malaria feel like a hang over. Wouldn't wish it on Thaksin even!  

[CHaos]

I made a thread about the risk of dengue recently and it was completely dismissed.

Luckily I haven't gone to Thailand as I was planning to.

[dumball]

neverdie, on 2009-02-11 17:16:39, said:

They were fogging around here earlier today, my only fear is I wonder what they were actually spraying & how long until it kills me. I have noticed theres been alot of cockroaches coming out of crevis's suffering slow agonising deaths....is this something to look forward to?

Well neverdie , maybe you could do us all a small favour , ring the date of the spraying with a RED marker , any future sprayings do likewise , when you start to feel like a KOKAROACH , ring the day in BLACK , when you finaly keel over , be sure to post all the pertinant dates on TV so we can all ring our expected day of demise when we get sprayed . You know what has been said before " Do or die for your buddies , even if it takes your last breath on earth " Thanks in anticipation of your extreme actions in the health and survival of us , your loyal/demeaning/antagonistic/racist/PC/ fellow members of TV , sorry if I missed some-one out .

p.s. Go for a final ride on your 'Iron stead ' , feel the power of its thrust against your thighs , the adrenaline pumping higher and higher , grab a handfull and spin off to wonder-land , lost in the joys of biking

[importford]

Where is this so called "War Room"?
How can I contact them?

Around our house are some spots with water that are breeding places for mosquitos.
I went yesterday to the "Opatoo', local governm,net to ask to fog these places.

The guy told me that they will only fog when somebody gets sick.....

statement of the Thai Public Health Ministry:

"Local authorities have been advised to spray insecticide to eradicate the adult aedes aegypti mosquito, which bites humans in the daytime."

TIT

Anybody that knows how I can contact this "war room"??????

[Jimmeee]

Miserere, on 2009-02-09 08:36:43, said:

I believe a War On Mosquitos should be announced to prevent Thailand becoming a Mosquito Hub, any mosquitos or people caught associating with mosquitos should be shot.

I refer to the harrassing hawkers as mosquitos. Such as the low life dog sht that wont leave u in peace in Pattaya. Can we put them on your list too. I truly truly hate and despise those cants. and i despise how thailand allows them.

[topdogdk]

We don´t have the problem around our house.

We have several jugs etc, with water in them.

We allways put a few guppies (or wharever) in them.

They really like eating the larvae, so no big problem.
(free food for the fish)

[chiang mai]

topdogdk, on 2009-02-12 16:24:22, said:

We don´t have the problem around our house.

We have several jugs etc, with water in them.

We allways put a few guppies (or wharever) in them.

They really like eating the larvae, so no big problem.
(free food for the fish)

Very true, it works just fine.

[Jimmeee]

neverdie, on 2009-02-11 18:16:39, said:

They were fogging around here earlier today, my only fear is I wonder what they were actually spraying & how long until it kills me. I have noticed theres been alot of cockroaches coming out of crevis's suffering slow agonising deaths....is this something to look forward to?

Thats not cockroaches. Thats Burmese boat people. Thailand thinks theyre the same thing

[Jimmeee]

Teflon, on 2009-02-11 18:47:26, said:

Having worked in Africa for a decade I have had Malaria over a dozen times, in 2005 I got Dengue whilst on break in Thailand(from a golf trip down Chantaburi way) and can tell you it makes Malaria feel like a hang over. Wouldn't wish it on Thaksin even!

Taksin didnt do to us foriegners what your people did

[Jimmeee]

dumball, on 2009-02-11 22:17:46, said:

neverdie, on 2009-02-11 17:16:39, said:

They were fogging around here earlier today, my only fear is I wonder what they were actually spraying & how long until it kills me. I have noticed theres been alot of cockroaches coming out of crevis's suffering slow agonising deaths....is this something to look forward to?

Well neverdie , maybe you could do us all a small favour , ring the date of the spraying with a RED marker , any future sprayings do likewise , when you start to feel like a KOKAROACH , ring the day in BLACK , when you finaly keel over , be sure to post all the pertinant dates on TV so we can all ring our expected day of demise when we get sprayed . You know what has been said before " Do or die for your buddies , even if it takes your last breath on earth " Thanks in anticipation of your extreme actions in the health and survival of us , your loyal/demeaning/antagonistic/racist/PC/ fellow members of TV , sorry if I missed some-one out .

p.s. Go for a final ride on your 'Iron stead ' , feel the power of its thrust against your thighs , the adrenaline pumping higher and higher , grab a handfull and spin off to wonder-land , lost in the joys of biking

HAHAHAHAHA......

[Sturbuc]

Mrjlh, on 2009-02-09 17:18:50, said:

GF and I caught it two years ago in Phuket.  Not a fun time.  We were both sick for 6 days each . Pain, coughing, fever, etc.  Her brother caught it a month before and was hospitalized.  Came close to dying.  Very serious disease not to be taken lightly with jokes and wise remarks.

Don't laugh but one possible eradication method would be to "radiate" millions of male aedes aegypti mosquito and release them into the areas affected.  Can't fertilize the females and the population dies off.  Very successful in other countries.  Takes time to create the population of sterile males but well worth the effort.  Has to be repeated for several years.  The size of Thailand makes it extremely difficult but if breeding sites were to be spread around the country and a "real" effort made, it would work.  The "radiation" equipment poses no danger to humans although many uneducated people will insist it does.  You get more radiation from the sun than the equipment.  Thailand could put people to work at the same time.  Hope some one from the "war room" reads this.

Well, are other methods to reduce the population of mosquitos:
- avoid all kinds of still water without fish inside to reduce the possibilities for the mosqitos to grow
- use bacteria (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis or MRC-367) to kill the growing Mosquitos.
(see http://www.wdr.de/tv...ekaempfung.jsp)

[sngiam]

The THPH (thailand public health) need to take a serious action on the health issue for Thailand. I can said that Thailand have a large majority of mosquito than other asian country. If you don't belieave me, every single house in Thailand have mosquito net window. And the size of the mosquito double size bigger than other Asian country.

Thailand is a hot country and also surrounding by river, THPH need to come up something like neighbour country did it. It is not wrong to make a reserch how neighbour deal with the mosquito. As myself been to many country but of course not middle east, they have some mosquito but not same as in Thailand too much. I'm feel bad and shy for my friends who visit me , they like  shopping, food, travel and people in thailand but was complain about the mosquito gave them a big souvenier to bring back home.

I hope THPH read all the alticle post in here. Advertise in the newpaper, radio and TV. To let all the citizen help each other to slove the problem. We must improve. We must kill the mosquito first before they kill us.

[david96]

We have an outbreak in Australia, Cairns and Townsville, we also have the malaria carrying mosquito but no malaria as yet, could have been brought in by a traveller from PNG or SE Asia. Source Qld Health Cairns.
About 400 persons have been affected.  Informative only.

[mayhasoc]

Sorry I have not had a chance to read all the replies, but 2 days ago, i received an email about drinking raw juice of the papaya leaves as a remedy for dengue...Has anyone else heard about this?

[Thai at Heart]

Over the weekend up country, local moobhan heads were distributing powder to put into ponds and water pots (washing not drinking water). Not sure what it is exactly but apparently knocks off the larvae.

[Foreverford]

magisterludi, on 2009-02-09 23:53:49, said:

george, on 2009-02-09 07:13:57, said:

Thailand 'War room' to counter soaring dengue outbreak

The aedes aegypti mosquito is the transmission agent for
Dengue Fever. It bites humans between an hour or so after
dawn until about an hour after sunset.

-- The Nation 2009-02-09

As far as I remember reading, aedes aegypti bite at any time of day or night. It is the anopheles mosquito that bites at dawn and dusk (responsible for malaria).


There is no vaccine or preventive drug that provides protection against dengue infection. The best way to avoid dengue virus infection is to prevent mosquito bites, particularly during the day.

While most mosquitoes are more active during dusk and night time, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are daytime biters so precautions against being bitten should also be taken during the day.

http://www.health.go...hp-fsdengue.htm

We had an outbreak in Mexico and i had friends die and one of best friends said she would want to die next time or kill herself before. Ha Ha ha guys this isn't a funny one I stayed completely covered and in my own home the entire time I was visiting as you get this from a mosquito that has bitten another person with Dengue. Local control and eradication (all the others have given the correct proceedures in previous responses) at the ar3eas where someone has been diagnosed is critical. be extremely careful in caring for people with it and make sure their home clinic hospital or morgue is mosquito free otherwise keep on a lot of clothes and spray. A friend had it here in Bangkok and said he spent weeks in a completely blacked out room as any light felt as if it was completely crushing him and putting him into the utmost pain. This is no joke and you see yourself or others bleeding from every orifice eyes included and you will understand. Thank budha for this site as I felt that there should always be a pinned site to deal with anyone who knows of anyone who has gotten this so people can be cautious and advised of where it is and how much. NOW the fact that there was 91,000 cases!!!!!!!!!!!!! last year and it wasn't readily made available to the media or the population in general in as criminal as having Thaksin as the PM and makes you really wonder. Is this subject pinned in the health section? (I don't read it too often if not we should start a Pin (is that the correct term?) so people can report know or suspected cases of this conastantly just like we do on the farming section for people to tell the rice prices in each area during the selling season. I've malaria a few times and i know it is a picnic compared to this and I am extremely afraqid of this and will continue to closely monitor this and thanks to all for their intelligent responses.