DDC Identifies Three Diseases as Pandemic Threats for 2024

Healthcare worker at Thailand Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, Ministry of Public Health
Healthcare worker at Thailand Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, Ministry of Public Health. Photo: UN Women Asia and the Pacific / flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has identified three major diseases – COVID-19, influenza, and dengue fever – as potential pandemic threats for the year [Read More…]

Citrus Extract Spray Prevents COVID, influenza

Besuto Qlears nasal spray
Besuto Qlears nasal spray from citrus extract, to protect users from the virus that caused respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, influenza (H1N1) and RSV. . Photo: Mahidol University.

BANGKOK, Nov 11 (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha praised Thai researchers for developing the world’s first nasal spray from citrus extract that protects users [Read More…]

Influenza outbreak strikes 40,000 people, with 4 deaths

Thailand - Members of the military nursing community in the Pacific region
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)

Influenza has already affected nearly 40,000 people in Thailand this year, and four of them have succumbed to the disease. The Disease Control Department’s director-general, [Read More…]