Kolera i thailand
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Cholera flare-up in Thailand 'under control'
A minor cholera outbreak in Thailand has been brought under control, with only a small number of Myanmar and Thai patients diagnosed with the disease — characterised by severe diarrhoea — and cured already, public health and local security authorities said on Wednesday.
The number of patients with cholera in Myanmar’s Shwe Kokko town is also declining, they added.
Even though Mae Sot and four other districts of the northern border province of Tak have been declared cholera control red zones due to their high risk of encountering new cases, the situation now is not very severe, said Dr Ramet Wongwilairat, director of Mae Sot Hospital.
Cholera now ranks 53rd on Thailand’s list of 57 communicable diseases under surveillance.
So far, a total of four patients, two Thais and two Myanmar nationals, have been diagnosed with cholera and fully treated. There have not been any new cases apart from three asymptomatic cholera cases, said Dr Suphachok Wetchaphanphesat, a public health inspector.
These three asymptomatic cases, which were detected recently along with the four symptomatic cases, comprise
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Thailand opens emergency centre after cholera outbreak in Myanmar
YANGON/BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Thai Public Health Ministry on Sunday set up the forward emergency operations centre (EOC) in överbyggnad province to monitor and minimise the impact from a cholera outbreak across the border in Myanmar.
Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry, said the forward EOC was set up in Tak as the nordlig province was at high risk from the spillover of the cholera outbreak from Shwe Kokko town in Myanmar.
Opas said the Tak Public Health Office served as the forward EOC and acting public health inspector-general Dr Supachoke Vejaphanphesat served as the situation commander of the forward EOC. Sopon Iamsirithaworn, chief inspector-general of the ministry, serves as the adviser of the forward EOC.
Opas took the action after it was reported that people in Shwe Kokko got cholera and two have died. It was reported that 56 patients were admitted to Shwe Kokko Hospital and two suspected cases were admitted to two hospitals in överbyggnad – one in Mae Sod Hospital and another in Mae Ramat Hospital. Doctors are still awaiting lab results on the two suspected cases.