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Pattaya fights back against dengue fever and chikungunya virus

By TN
August 16, 2020

Pattaya City sign and boats at Pattaya pier. Photo: WallpaperFlare.

Pattaya – Pattaya City is fighting back against mosquito carried illnesses but state the situation is not critical. Pattaya continues to rollout an overall campaign [Read More…]

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Sisaket Has Almost 20 Chikungunya Disease Patients

By TN
July 4, 2020

Songsaeng Department Store in KhuKhan, Sisaket. Photo: Khukhannakhorn.

BANGKOK (NNT) – During the rainy season, there is usually extra monitoring of diseases spread by mosquitoes especially Dengue and Chikungunya. This year in Sisaket [Read More…]

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Fumigation in Ratchaburi after 14 Singaporeans contract Chikungunya fever

By TN
June 8, 2019

Entomologist using a large powered aspirator to collect mosquitoes in northern Thailand. Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Tim Davis - USAF Photographic Archives.

Health officials have conducted fumigation operations in communities, schools and hospitals in Thailand’s central province of Ratchaburi after 14 Singaporean students and teachers on a [Read More…]

Phuket

Spike in Phuket infections spur anti-Chikungunya offensive

By TN
December 13, 2018

BANGKOK, Thailand - Members of the military nursing community in the Pacific region gathered at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok Thailand on Aug. 3 for a tour of the Hospital facilities during the 2011 Asia Pacific Military Nursing Symposium, which is sponsored by Pacific Command and executed under the direction of 13th Air Force. This is the fifth year of the symposium, which started at Hickam Air force Base in 2007, and the first time that Thailand has hosted the event. More than 12 countries from the Asia-Pacific region have come together to build on relationships by exchanging information and techniques with one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young)

PHUKET: Local health officials are rolling out a campaign to prevent an outbreak of Chikungunya after a spike in the number of infections on the [Read More…]