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My Thai wife has a current Australian 12 month Multiple entry visa in her old passport. She recently went to the trouble of changing her surname and obtained a new passport reflecting this.
An email to the Australian Embassy in BKK re this resulted in a most unhelpful reply.
Can she still travel to Australia using the visa in the old passport --- despite the change of surname in the new one??
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Beware Of Dengue Fever
2010-07-17 19:36:41
The Thailand Live news clippings - for today - leads off with a release which is dangerously misleading.
"Residents in Nakhon Ratchasima warned of dengue fever
NAKHON RATCHASIMA (NNT) -- The Nakhon Ratchasima Provincial Public Health Office has warned local residents of the
prevalence of dengue fever with over 1,000 infected patients and 3 fatalities so far.
According to the latest report, more than 1,000 people in Nakhon Ratchasima province have been infected with dengue
fever, 3 of whom have succumbed to the disease. Over 300 of the total patients were reported in June alone.
MD Varunyu Sattayawongtip, medical service officer of the Nakhon Ratchasima Provincial Public Health Office, stated that
public health officials in all 32 districts of the province had already been tasked with educating the locals on how to protect
themselves from the disease. All stagnant waters in the area, which could serve as mosquito breeding grounds, are also
being sprayed with larvicide on a continuous basis.
As reported by the Bureau of Epidemiology, 4,000 people living in the lower northeastern part of Thailand, such as Nakhon
Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buri Ram and Surin provinces, have been infected with dengue fever while 4 of them have died."
Long established methods of reducing the instances of this dangerous disease have proven extremely effective in tropical Australia. There ia a "magic bullet" against Dengue ---- the number one weapon against this disease is the elimination of the breeding sites of the vector mosquito ----- Aedes (3 sub-species). It is extremely selective in its choice of breeding site.
These mosquito do not breed in stagnant water. These mosquito do not breed in swamps. If the information on which this article is based is accurate :
"All stagnant waters in the area, which could serve as mosquito breeding grounds, are also
being sprayed with larvicide on a continuous basis." .
Then they are totally wasting their time ...... doing damage when not nessicary ------ and probably ignoring all the effective steps that should be in place to help control the spread of Dengue.
If those who ordered the spraying of stagnant waters are the same -----
"public health officials in all 32 districts of the province had already been tasked with educating the locals on how to protect themselves from the disease".---- then I hold out little hope of anything effective being done.
Here is some accurate and critical information to protect yourself and your family.
( taken from the QLD Gov. website --http://www.health.qld.gov.au/dengue/reduce_risk/advice_residents.asp)
'Stop the mosquito breeding
and you can stop the disease'
Dengue mosquitoes breed in containers that hold water, including:
"Residents in Nakhon Ratchasima warned of dengue fever
NAKHON RATCHASIMA (NNT) -- The Nakhon Ratchasima Provincial Public Health Office has warned local residents of the
prevalence of dengue fever with over 1,000 infected patients and 3 fatalities so far.
According to the latest report, more than 1,000 people in Nakhon Ratchasima province have been infected with dengue
fever, 3 of whom have succumbed to the disease. Over 300 of the total patients were reported in June alone.
MD Varunyu Sattayawongtip, medical service officer of the Nakhon Ratchasima Provincial Public Health Office, stated that
public health officials in all 32 districts of the province had already been tasked with educating the locals on how to protect
themselves from the disease. All stagnant waters in the area, which could serve as mosquito breeding grounds, are also
being sprayed with larvicide on a continuous basis.
As reported by the Bureau of Epidemiology, 4,000 people living in the lower northeastern part of Thailand, such as Nakhon
Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buri Ram and Surin provinces, have been infected with dengue fever while 4 of them have died."
Long established methods of reducing the instances of this dangerous disease have proven extremely effective in tropical Australia. There ia a "magic bullet" against Dengue ---- the number one weapon against this disease is the elimination of the breeding sites of the vector mosquito ----- Aedes (3 sub-species). It is extremely selective in its choice of breeding site.
These mosquito do not breed in stagnant water. These mosquito do not breed in swamps. If the information on which this article is based is accurate :
"All stagnant waters in the area, which could serve as mosquito breeding grounds, are also
being sprayed with larvicide on a continuous basis." .
Then they are totally wasting their time ...... doing damage when not nessicary ------ and probably ignoring all the effective steps that should be in place to help control the spread of Dengue.
If those who ordered the spraying of stagnant waters are the same -----
"public health officials in all 32 districts of the province had already been tasked with educating the locals on how to protect themselves from the disease".---- then I hold out little hope of anything effective being done.
Here is some accurate and critical information to protect yourself and your family.
( taken from the QLD Gov. website --http://www.health.qld.gov.au/dengue/reduce_risk/advice_residents.asp)
'Stop the mosquito breeding
and you can stop the disease'
Dengue mosquitoes breed in containers that hold water, including:
- buckets
- old tyres
- tarpaulins and black plastic
- pot plant bases
- vases
- boats
- tin cans and plastic containers
- roof guttering
- rainwater tanks with damaged or missing screens
- birdbaths
- striking containers (to grow plant cuttings)
- drain sumps
- fallen palm fronds
- coconut shells.
