BREAKING: Thailand’s first monkeypox case escapes Phuket hospital
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Thailand recorded its first case of monkeypox yesterday.( https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/thai ... et-tourist ) During the night, the 27 year old Nigerian man allegedly escaped from a private hospital in Phuket and drove away in a white car. Officials are currently tracking him down but his whereabouts are unknown.
At present, no further details are available. Phuket governor Narong Woonciew will give an urgent press release on the matter at 11:00am. The Thaiger will update the story once more information is available.
The man recently travelled from Nigeria to Thailand and presented the following symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose and skin lesions. His PCR test result came back positive for monkeypox virus.
A total of 15,378 cases have been reported worldwide since the start of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak.
SOURCE: Daily News
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Stepped up health screening for monkeypox
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -monkeypox
Hospitals, sexual disease clinics and international airports have been alerted to strengthen screening procedures for monkeypox following the detection of the first case in Thailand - a man from Nigeria.
Department oif Disease Cntrol chief Opas Karnkawinpong said on Friday that monkeypox had been placed on the list of communicable diseases under surveillance.
Provincial communicable disease committees, including Bangkok, need to put in place a disease control plan, as required by the Communicable Diseases Act. All detected cases must be directly reported to the department.
He said the Public Health Ministry had ordered the implementation of a surveillance and screening system for people suspected of having the disease. The symptoms included high fever, headache, sore throat, blisters on the hands, feet and genitals.
All hospitals, sexual disease clinics and disease control officials at international airports must have a surveillance and screening system to detect the disease.
Patients must be quarantined during medical treatment. High-risk contact people should self-observe for symptoms for 21 days.
“Please be aware that the disease is not serious and it can be treated. It is not an airborne disease and is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, so please strictly follow our sanitary guidance on universal health prevention, including regular hand washing and avoiding close contact in public,” he said.
The warnings come after a 27-year-old Nigerian man in Phuket developed symptoms similar to Monkeypox disease. Lab tests on samples from the man by Chulalongkorn Hospital and the Department of Medical Sciences were positive. The results were submitted to an acdemic committee of disease experts, who confirmed the result on Thursday, July 21.
Dr Opas said two people deemed at high risk of infection had tested negative. They were advised to monitor their health closely for 21 days. Further disease investigation at two night entertainment places found six people developing fever. Tests on four of the six had already come back negative. All six were told to self-monitor for 21 days.
He said the disease transmission rate and severity is rather low compared with Covid-19. There had been 12,608 cases found in 66 countries since May this year. The outbreaks were mostly in the EU and US.
He said the department already had already made a reservation for monkeypox vaccine, but there was no need for a massive vaccination caamaign like Covid-19 disease, because of the transmission rate and side-effects from the vaccine.
He the vaccine should not be for all, mainly for medical staff and people working with the disease in laboratories.
According to the World Health Organisation monkeyox is still primarily found in homosexual groups.
Ninety-eight percent of reported cases globally "are among men who have sex with men -- and primarily those who have multiple recent anonymous or new partners," Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, told a press conference on Wednesday. They were typically of young age and chiefly in urban areas, according to the WHO.
Monkeypox is endemic to Africa.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -monkeypox
Hospitals, sexual disease clinics and international airports have been alerted to strengthen screening procedures for monkeypox following the detection of the first case in Thailand - a man from Nigeria.
Department oif Disease Cntrol chief Opas Karnkawinpong said on Friday that monkeypox had been placed on the list of communicable diseases under surveillance.
Provincial communicable disease committees, including Bangkok, need to put in place a disease control plan, as required by the Communicable Diseases Act. All detected cases must be directly reported to the department.
He said the Public Health Ministry had ordered the implementation of a surveillance and screening system for people suspected of having the disease. The symptoms included high fever, headache, sore throat, blisters on the hands, feet and genitals.
All hospitals, sexual disease clinics and disease control officials at international airports must have a surveillance and screening system to detect the disease.
Patients must be quarantined during medical treatment. High-risk contact people should self-observe for symptoms for 21 days.
“Please be aware that the disease is not serious and it can be treated. It is not an airborne disease and is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, so please strictly follow our sanitary guidance on universal health prevention, including regular hand washing and avoiding close contact in public,” he said.
The warnings come after a 27-year-old Nigerian man in Phuket developed symptoms similar to Monkeypox disease. Lab tests on samples from the man by Chulalongkorn Hospital and the Department of Medical Sciences were positive. The results were submitted to an acdemic committee of disease experts, who confirmed the result on Thursday, July 21.
Dr Opas said two people deemed at high risk of infection had tested negative. They were advised to monitor their health closely for 21 days. Further disease investigation at two night entertainment places found six people developing fever. Tests on four of the six had already come back negative. All six were told to self-monitor for 21 days.
He said the disease transmission rate and severity is rather low compared with Covid-19. There had been 12,608 cases found in 66 countries since May this year. The outbreaks were mostly in the EU and US.
He said the department already had already made a reservation for monkeypox vaccine, but there was no need for a massive vaccination caamaign like Covid-19 disease, because of the transmission rate and side-effects from the vaccine.
He the vaccine should not be for all, mainly for medical staff and people working with the disease in laboratories.
According to the World Health Organisation monkeyox is still primarily found in homosexual groups.
Ninety-eight percent of reported cases globally "are among men who have sex with men -- and primarily those who have multiple recent anonymous or new partners," Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, told a press conference on Wednesday. They were typically of young age and chiefly in urban areas, according to the WHO.
Monkeypox is endemic to Africa.
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UPDATE: Thailand’s first monkeypox case goes missing
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UPDATE:
The 27 year old man who tested positive for the monkeypox virus in Phuket has been missing since Wednesday July 20 at 9:05pm, according to Phuket police.
Despite Thai media widely reporting that the man escaped from the private hospital in Phuket where he initially presented with symptoms, he was actually staying at Patong Princess hotel when he went missing. On Wednesday at 9:30pm, he placed his hotel keys on the front desk and left. CCTV footage pictures him driving away in a white car. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
The 27 year old Nigerian man started presenting with symptoms on July 9. He was tested on July 16 at a private hospital in Phuket and was told to isolate at his apartment at DCondo in Kathu. He received the positive test result two days later on July 18.
On July 18, officials went to the man’s condo to pick him up and take him to the hospital for treatment, but he was not there. He had checked into a hotel in the Patong area on July 18, as later discovered by police. He paid with cash and booked to stay for 2 nights.
On July 19, the man rang the hospital and said he was going to go there for treatment in the evening. However, he never turned up to the hospital. In the evening of July 19 at 9:30, he left the hotel.
He checked into Patong Princess Hotel and stayed the night on July 19, unbeknownst by police. On July 20 at 9:05pm, he placed his keys on the front desk and left. CCTV footage shows him driving away from the hotel in a white car.
Police said he could still be in Phuket, or he could have left already. His whereabouts are unknown.
Police interviewed 142 people from two entertainment venues where the man went before he presented with symptoms at the hospital. Not one person said they had close contact with him, but 5 people reported symptoms such as a high fever, cough and sore throat, so they were tested for the monkeypox virus.
Two more people from the man’s condo were considered at high risk of contracting the virus and were also tested. All 7 tests came back negative.
Police are still investigating whether there is anyone else who had close contact with the man and should be tested.
Phuket public health officials said the strain of monkeypox found by PCR test is not strong.
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/up ... es-missing
UPDATE:
The 27 year old man who tested positive for the monkeypox virus in Phuket has been missing since Wednesday July 20 at 9:05pm, according to Phuket police.
Despite Thai media widely reporting that the man escaped from the private hospital in Phuket where he initially presented with symptoms, he was actually staying at Patong Princess hotel when he went missing. On Wednesday at 9:30pm, he placed his hotel keys on the front desk and left. CCTV footage pictures him driving away in a white car. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
The 27 year old Nigerian man started presenting with symptoms on July 9. He was tested on July 16 at a private hospital in Phuket and was told to isolate at his apartment at DCondo in Kathu. He received the positive test result two days later on July 18.
On July 18, officials went to the man’s condo to pick him up and take him to the hospital for treatment, but he was not there. He had checked into a hotel in the Patong area on July 18, as later discovered by police. He paid with cash and booked to stay for 2 nights.
On July 19, the man rang the hospital and said he was going to go there for treatment in the evening. However, he never turned up to the hospital. In the evening of July 19 at 9:30, he left the hotel.
He checked into Patong Princess Hotel and stayed the night on July 19, unbeknownst by police. On July 20 at 9:05pm, he placed his keys on the front desk and left. CCTV footage shows him driving away from the hotel in a white car.
Police said he could still be in Phuket, or he could have left already. His whereabouts are unknown.
Police interviewed 142 people from two entertainment venues where the man went before he presented with symptoms at the hospital. Not one person said they had close contact with him, but 5 people reported symptoms such as a high fever, cough and sore throat, so they were tested for the monkeypox virus.
Two more people from the man’s condo were considered at high risk of contracting the virus and were also tested. All 7 tests came back negative.
Police are still investigating whether there is anyone else who had close contact with the man and should be tested.
Phuket public health officials said the strain of monkeypox found by PCR test is not strong.
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Fleeing monkeypox patient caught in Cambodia
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Nigerian man crossed border at Sa Kaeo after leaving Phuket, where contact tracing continues
Police in Cambodia have arrested a Nigerian man who fled there from Thailand after being diagnosed with monkeypox — the first known case in the country — earlier this week in Phuket.
The arrest took place on Saturday afternoon at a market in Phnom Penh, the Khmer Times reported, quoting Keut Chhe, the deputy governor of the Cambodian capital district.
After his arrest, the 27-year-old man was handed over to the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Because he represents the first monkeypox case in Cambodia, officials there have urgently begun tracing to find out where the man has been and who he has had contact with since entering the country.
The man was believed to have crossed into Cambodia on Friday after his mobile phone signal was detected in a Thai border province, said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control.
Speaking at a briefing earlier on Saturday, Dr Opas did not name the province or the neighbouring country but his presentation showed the location as Sa Kaeo, which borders Banteay Meanchey province in Cambodia.
Subsequent reports in Cambodia suggested the man might have been heading for the seaside resort town of Sihanoukville. However, it now appears that he instead made his way to Phnom Penh, which has a large Nigerian expat community, according to the Khmer Times.
Dr Opas said the 27-year-old Nigerian fled with help from other people, adding that police would be asked to take action against anyone who facilitated his escape.
Public health officials have not identified the man by name out of respect for medical privacy, but it has been widely reported in both social and mainstream media.
Pichet Panapong, the deputy governor of Phuket, said all he knew was that the man had left the island.
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the Department of Disease Control had tracked down those who had close contact with the patient.
“As of now, new monkeypox cases have not been reported,” he said on Saturday. “People have no need to worry as every member of the at-risk group is being closely monitored by the department.”
The man reportedly boarded Ethiopian Airlines flight ET0618 to Suvarnabhumi airport on Oct 21 with a non-immigrant visa to study language at a university in Chiang Mai until Jan 18, according to the Public Health Ministry.
Phuket officials said the man went to a private hospital on the island on July 16 a week after he developed a fever, coughing, a sore throat and runny nose. He also had a rash and lesions on his genital area that spread to other parts of his body and face.
The doctor suspected the man may have been infected with monkeypox so samples from the patient were sent for verification. A PCR lab test by the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Centre on Tuesday confirmed monkeypox. This was later confirmed by tests arranged by the Department of Disease Control.
Later the hospital tried to contact the man to tell him to receive treatment at the state-run Vachira Phuket Hospital, but he had turned off his mobile phone. Officials went to his apartment in Kathu district to arrange treatment but he was not there.
Mr Pichet said two people who had been in close contact with the Nigerian patient had their blood samples tested and the results came back negative. A taxi driver who took the infected man to various places in Phuket was being taken for blood tests on Saturday, the deputy governor added.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... n-cambodia
Nigerian man crossed border at Sa Kaeo after leaving Phuket, where contact tracing continues
Police in Cambodia have arrested a Nigerian man who fled there from Thailand after being diagnosed with monkeypox — the first known case in the country — earlier this week in Phuket.
The arrest took place on Saturday afternoon at a market in Phnom Penh, the Khmer Times reported, quoting Keut Chhe, the deputy governor of the Cambodian capital district.
After his arrest, the 27-year-old man was handed over to the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Because he represents the first monkeypox case in Cambodia, officials there have urgently begun tracing to find out where the man has been and who he has had contact with since entering the country.
The man was believed to have crossed into Cambodia on Friday after his mobile phone signal was detected in a Thai border province, said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control.
Speaking at a briefing earlier on Saturday, Dr Opas did not name the province or the neighbouring country but his presentation showed the location as Sa Kaeo, which borders Banteay Meanchey province in Cambodia.
Subsequent reports in Cambodia suggested the man might have been heading for the seaside resort town of Sihanoukville. However, it now appears that he instead made his way to Phnom Penh, which has a large Nigerian expat community, according to the Khmer Times.
Dr Opas said the 27-year-old Nigerian fled with help from other people, adding that police would be asked to take action against anyone who facilitated his escape.
Public health officials have not identified the man by name out of respect for medical privacy, but it has been widely reported in both social and mainstream media.
Pichet Panapong, the deputy governor of Phuket, said all he knew was that the man had left the island.
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the Department of Disease Control had tracked down those who had close contact with the patient.
“As of now, new monkeypox cases have not been reported,” he said on Saturday. “People have no need to worry as every member of the at-risk group is being closely monitored by the department.”
The man reportedly boarded Ethiopian Airlines flight ET0618 to Suvarnabhumi airport on Oct 21 with a non-immigrant visa to study language at a university in Chiang Mai until Jan 18, according to the Public Health Ministry.
Phuket officials said the man went to a private hospital on the island on July 16 a week after he developed a fever, coughing, a sore throat and runny nose. He also had a rash and lesions on his genital area that spread to other parts of his body and face.
The doctor suspected the man may have been infected with monkeypox so samples from the patient were sent for verification. A PCR lab test by the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Centre on Tuesday confirmed monkeypox. This was later confirmed by tests arranged by the Department of Disease Control.
Later the hospital tried to contact the man to tell him to receive treatment at the state-run Vachira Phuket Hospital, but he had turned off his mobile phone. Officials went to his apartment in Kathu district to arrange treatment but he was not there.
Mr Pichet said two people who had been in close contact with the Nigerian patient had their blood samples tested and the results came back negative. A taxi driver who took the infected man to various places in Phuket was being taken for blood tests on Saturday, the deputy governor added.
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WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/23523 ... -emergency
UN agency applies highest alert level to signal start of concerted effort to fight surge in cases
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency following a surge in cases.
The classification is the highest alert that the UN agency can issue. More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
There are only two other such health emergencies at present — the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing effort to eradicate polio.
Tedros acknowledged that experts engaged by the WHO in June were unable to reach a consensus on whether monkeypox constitutes a global emergency, but the agency is going ahead with the declaration.
The new alert signals that a coordinated international response is needed and could unlock funding and global efforts to collaborate on sharing vaccines and treatments.
A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.
Thailand this week reported its first known case of monkeypox, in a Nigerian man in Phuket. He was examined at a hospital with mild symptoms and advised to quarantine at his condominium, but he has then left the island. He was arrested on Saturday afternoon in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.
On June 23, the WHO convened an emergency committee of experts to decide if monkeypox constitutes a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) — the agency’s highest alert level.
But a majority advised Tedros that the situation, at that point, had not met the threshold.
At a second meeting on Thursday, with case numbers rising further, Tedros said he was worried.
“I need your advice in assessing the immediate and mid-term public health implications,” he told the meeting, which lasted more than six hours.
A US health expert sounded a grim warning late Friday.
“Since the last #monkeypox EC just weeks ago we’ve seen an exponential rise in cases. It’s inevitable that cases will dramatically rise in the coming weeks & months. That’s why @DrTedros must sound the global alarm,” Lawrence Gostin, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, said on Twitter.
“A failure to act will have grave consequences for global health.”
Warning against discrimination
A viral infection resembling smallpox and first detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.
Ninety-five percent of cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to a study of 528 people in 16 countries published in the New England Journal of Medicine — the largest research to date.
Overall, 98% of infected people were gay or bisexual men, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.
“This transmission pattern represents both an opportunity to implement targeted public health interventions, and a challenge because in some countries, the communities affected face life-threatening discrimination,” Tedros said, citing concern that stigma and scapegoating could make the outbreak harder to track.
“I am acutely aware that any decision I take regarding the possible determination of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern involves the consideration of many factors, with the ultimate goal of protecting public health,” he added.
The European Union’s drug watchdog on Friday recommended for approval the use of Imnavex, a smallpox vaccine, to treat monkeypox.
Imvanex, developed by the Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.
It was also considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.
The first symptoms of monkeypox are fever, headaches, muscle pain and back pain during the course of five days.
Rashes subsequently appear on the face, the palms of hands and soles of feet, followed by lesions, spots and finally scabs.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/23523 ... -emergency
UN agency applies highest alert level to signal start of concerted effort to fight surge in cases
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency following a surge in cases.
The classification is the highest alert that the UN agency can issue. More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
There are only two other such health emergencies at present — the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing effort to eradicate polio.
Tedros acknowledged that experts engaged by the WHO in June were unable to reach a consensus on whether monkeypox constitutes a global emergency, but the agency is going ahead with the declaration.
The new alert signals that a coordinated international response is needed and could unlock funding and global efforts to collaborate on sharing vaccines and treatments.
A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.
Thailand this week reported its first known case of monkeypox, in a Nigerian man in Phuket. He was examined at a hospital with mild symptoms and advised to quarantine at his condominium, but he has then left the island. He was arrested on Saturday afternoon in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.
On June 23, the WHO convened an emergency committee of experts to decide if monkeypox constitutes a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) — the agency’s highest alert level.
But a majority advised Tedros that the situation, at that point, had not met the threshold.
At a second meeting on Thursday, with case numbers rising further, Tedros said he was worried.
“I need your advice in assessing the immediate and mid-term public health implications,” he told the meeting, which lasted more than six hours.
A US health expert sounded a grim warning late Friday.
“Since the last #monkeypox EC just weeks ago we’ve seen an exponential rise in cases. It’s inevitable that cases will dramatically rise in the coming weeks & months. That’s why @DrTedros must sound the global alarm,” Lawrence Gostin, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, said on Twitter.
“A failure to act will have grave consequences for global health.”
Warning against discrimination
A viral infection resembling smallpox and first detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.
Ninety-five percent of cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to a study of 528 people in 16 countries published in the New England Journal of Medicine — the largest research to date.
Overall, 98% of infected people were gay or bisexual men, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.
“This transmission pattern represents both an opportunity to implement targeted public health interventions, and a challenge because in some countries, the communities affected face life-threatening discrimination,” Tedros said, citing concern that stigma and scapegoating could make the outbreak harder to track.
“I am acutely aware that any decision I take regarding the possible determination of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern involves the consideration of many factors, with the ultimate goal of protecting public health,” he added.
The European Union’s drug watchdog on Friday recommended for approval the use of Imnavex, a smallpox vaccine, to treat monkeypox.
Imvanex, developed by the Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.
It was also considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.
The first symptoms of monkeypox are fever, headaches, muscle pain and back pain during the course of five days.
Rashes subsequently appear on the face, the palms of hands and soles of feet, followed by lesions, spots and finally scabs.
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Thailand says 40 year old smallpox vaccines are effective against monkeypox
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/th ... onkeypox-2
Thailand has a stockpile of smallpox vaccines in cold storage which were produced more than 40 years ago in 1979 and 1980. Not only are the vaccines still effective against smallpox, but they are 85% effective against monkeypox too, according to Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences (DMS).
The vaccines could be used in the instance that the global monkeypox outbreak becomes a public health emergency in Thailand and the government is unable to procure fresh, more recently produced vaccines.
There are 10,000 vials in storage which each contain 50 doses of the vaccine, amounting to around 500,000 doses in total. The vaccines are left over from when smallpox was completely eradicated in Thailand by 1980. The vials are from 13 batches, produced in 1979 and 1980, have been stored at 2-8 degrees Celsius for over 40 years.
At present, the monkeypox virus is not a ‘public health emergency’ in Thailand but the Ministry of Public Health is monitoring the situation after Thailand’s first ever case of monkeypox was recorded in Phuket last week. Monkeypox was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation on Saturday after more than 16,000 cases were recorded worldwide.
Although, since the 27 year old Nigerian man who tested positive for monkeypox fled Phuket and swam to Cambodia via the Sa Kaeo River, Thailand’s official recorded number of monkeypox cases is now technically back down to zero.
In preparation for the arrival of monkeypox in the kingdom, a sample of the frozen vaccine was inspected by the DMS in May. The vaccines passed five quality tests for appearance, physiochemical properties, safety, identity and potency, according to Director-General of the DMS Dr. Supakit Sirilak.
The DMS did not detect any issues or contaminations in the vaccine sample. The 40 year old vaccines conform with the World Health Organisation’s international standards and are 85% effective at preventing monkeypox too, according to Dr. Supakit.
The old vaccines will only be put to use if the monkeypox outbreak worsens in Thailand. The DMS is currently attempting to cultivate the monkeypox virus in the laboratory to investigate the potential of producing a separate monkeypox vaccine.
SOURCE: Nation
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/th ... onkeypox-2
Thailand has a stockpile of smallpox vaccines in cold storage which were produced more than 40 years ago in 1979 and 1980. Not only are the vaccines still effective against smallpox, but they are 85% effective against monkeypox too, according to Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences (DMS).
The vaccines could be used in the instance that the global monkeypox outbreak becomes a public health emergency in Thailand and the government is unable to procure fresh, more recently produced vaccines.
There are 10,000 vials in storage which each contain 50 doses of the vaccine, amounting to around 500,000 doses in total. The vaccines are left over from when smallpox was completely eradicated in Thailand by 1980. The vials are from 13 batches, produced in 1979 and 1980, have been stored at 2-8 degrees Celsius for over 40 years.
At present, the monkeypox virus is not a ‘public health emergency’ in Thailand but the Ministry of Public Health is monitoring the situation after Thailand’s first ever case of monkeypox was recorded in Phuket last week. Monkeypox was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation on Saturday after more than 16,000 cases were recorded worldwide.
Although, since the 27 year old Nigerian man who tested positive for monkeypox fled Phuket and swam to Cambodia via the Sa Kaeo River, Thailand’s official recorded number of monkeypox cases is now technically back down to zero.
In preparation for the arrival of monkeypox in the kingdom, a sample of the frozen vaccine was inspected by the DMS in May. The vaccines passed five quality tests for appearance, physiochemical properties, safety, identity and potency, according to Director-General of the DMS Dr. Supakit Sirilak.
The DMS did not detect any issues or contaminations in the vaccine sample. The 40 year old vaccines conform with the World Health Organisation’s international standards and are 85% effective at preventing monkeypox too, according to Dr. Supakit.
The old vaccines will only be put to use if the monkeypox outbreak worsens in Thailand. The DMS is currently attempting to cultivate the monkeypox virus in the laboratory to investigate the potential of producing a separate monkeypox vaccine.
SOURCE: Nation
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"Although, since the 27 year old Nigerian man who tested positive for monkeypox fled Phuket and swam to Cambodia via the Sa Kaeo River, Thailand’s official recorded number of monkeypox cases is now technically back down to zero."
He's been caught in Cambodia.
He's been caught in Cambodia.
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I wouldn't trust their smallpox vaccines in 'cold storage'.
https://www.who.int/teams/health-produc ... n/smallpoxMost existing vaccine stocks and the vaccine utilized by the WHO eradication campaign consisted of pulp scraped from vaccinia-infected animal skin, mainly calf or sheep, with phenol added to a concentration sufficient to kill bacteria, but not so high as to inactivate the vaccinia virus. The live vaccine was then freeze-dried and sealed in ampoules for later re-suspension in sterile buffer and subsequent intradermal inoculation by multiple puncture with a bifurcated needle. The vaccinia virus is remarkably stable when lyophilized, and vaccines stored under appropriate conditions for as long as 18 years have not lost their potency.
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after Corona comes the next fear-spreading (alleged) disease that mankind is said to be afraid of and should bring huge sales to the pharmaceutical industry,
Governments in many countries around the world have realized that it is much easier to govern in conditions of fear and panic, and so the lessons learned from COVID are now being used for new "pandemics"
some information - for english speaking people:
https://www.grand-jury.net/
Information - in german or in german translation
https://sca.news/
https://corona-ausschuss.de/
Governments in many countries around the world have realized that it is much easier to govern in conditions of fear and panic, and so the lessons learned from COVID are now being used for new "pandemics"
some information - for english speaking people:
https://www.grand-jury.net/
Information - in german or in german translation
https://sca.news/
https://corona-ausschuss.de/
take it easy
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Seems to me the scaremongerers here are
the denier types who think governments of all persuasions around this world are somehow relishing the current pandemic.
Most have had little or no opportunity to do little else but to deal with the day to day stuff of C19.
The wife and I had Swine Flu big time years back and have been constantly watching the warning shots pass over head and had no surprise when C19 hit.
My English doctor worked for AZ in the UK
and often said that we were just hanging in there to avoid a pandemic.
They had even developed likely vaccines ready to go.
By the way they were the first to get a vaccine onto the streets and at cost price of production only ,no profit mark up.
There are a few out there who are loaded up on the science of Fakebook and Twatter etc.
I prefer to stick with the 400 years plus medical knowledge that has kept probably the most of us on this forum from making it past childhood and alive today.
the denier types who think governments of all persuasions around this world are somehow relishing the current pandemic.
Most have had little or no opportunity to do little else but to deal with the day to day stuff of C19.
The wife and I had Swine Flu big time years back and have been constantly watching the warning shots pass over head and had no surprise when C19 hit.
My English doctor worked for AZ in the UK
and often said that we were just hanging in there to avoid a pandemic.
They had even developed likely vaccines ready to go.
By the way they were the first to get a vaccine onto the streets and at cost price of production only ,no profit mark up.
There are a few out there who are loaded up on the science of Fakebook and Twatter etc.
I prefer to stick with the 400 years plus medical knowledge that has kept probably the most of us on this forum from making it past childhood and alive today.
Complexity is so simply overrated
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Re: Monkey Pox Thread
In the UK they are offering a modified form of smallpox vaccine (MVA) that is claimed to be much safer than the original vaccines developed in the 1970’s
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... accination
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... accination
Re: Monkey Pox Thread
Thailand's 3rd monkeypox case found in Phuket
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -in-phuket
Thailand's third case of monkeypox has been found in Phuket, Department of Disease Control director-general Opas Karnkawinpong said on Wednesday.
Dr Opas said the latest monkeypox case is a 25-year-old German man who arrived in Phuket on July 18 as a tourist.
The man was believed to have caught the virus in another country because the incubation period is 21 days. Officials were tracking down people who had been in close contact with him, for examination, he said.
Dr Opas said the patient was found to have a fever, with blisters and a rash that began in his groin area before spreading to other parts of his body. The symptoms coincided with information from the World Health Organisation, that blisters and rashes are found around the genitalia of 98% of those infected, and most of them are homosexual or bisexual.............
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -in-phuket
Thailand's third case of monkeypox has been found in Phuket, Department of Disease Control director-general Opas Karnkawinpong said on Wednesday.
Dr Opas said the latest monkeypox case is a 25-year-old German man who arrived in Phuket on July 18 as a tourist.
The man was believed to have caught the virus in another country because the incubation period is 21 days. Officials were tracking down people who had been in close contact with him, for examination, he said.
Dr Opas said the patient was found to have a fever, with blisters and a rash that began in his groin area before spreading to other parts of his body. The symptoms coincided with information from the World Health Organisation, that blisters and rashes are found around the genitalia of 98% of those infected, and most of them are homosexual or bisexual.............
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