cheekyboy Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Thailand orders suspension of entertainment services in Pattaya to curb A/H1N1 outbreak Editor: An BANGKOK, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Public Health Ministry on Thursday ordered service suspension of 17 entertainment places in resort town Pattaya in a central province of Chonburi in a bid to curb the A/H1N1 flu virus outbreak, the Thai News Agency reported. The order of the temporary closure has followed the earlier announcement by the Ministry that now totally there are 21 confirmed A/H1N1 flu patients in Chonburi, the destination of tourists around the world. Also, some 420,000 pills of antiviral Camiflu have been distributed to Chonburi's provincial public health office, said Somchai Chakraphan, director-general of the Disease Control Department, the Health Ministry, the website by Thai-language newspaper Krungthep Turakij reported. The provincial public health office will later re-distribute them to hotels and risk-affected areas, he said. On May 12, the Health Ministry announced the country's first two confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases, and by June 10 the country has totally 46 confirmed A/H1N1 flu patients. According to the World Health Organization, Thailand ranked 33rd as the country that has been hit by the deadly new virus. news.xinhuanet.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekyboy Posted June 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 only 17 ? and which ones and why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Mahidol University in Bangkok reportedly has cancelled health classes (appropriately!) after a student tested positive for the bug. St Gabriel and St Francis Xavier had closed already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damen Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 only 17 ? and which ones and why ? One of the eariler reports noted a disco but didn't give the name. If I had to guess, I'd say Marine II. Last time I was in there all I saw was a bunch of pigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoksipgau Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Damen,,it was Star Dice,,,it is closed. I am trying to find out which places have been closed on other forums. No one seems to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 ... and with school closed the kids will head to the malls. That should keep the infection rate increasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyebee Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 I think the original report was wrong. Only one place (Star Dice) has been closed as far as I know, and other reports say that 17 people were found infected there. Which seems to be where the figure 17 comes from. Obviously a mistranslation, or a total cock-up by the news agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Says the Bangkok Post: << More than 1,000 business operators in Pattaya gathered yesterday for a briefing on the H1N1 situation by Chon Buri governor Senee Jittakasem after health authorities raised the flu alert level in the resort town following human-to-human transmission cases. Business operators remained worried as two Taiwanese tourists who tested positive said they caught it in Pattaya. "It will have a huge impact on the industry because the virus has caused a global health scare. "Several previous incidents have seen arrivals drop over 30%. And if we have this new strain of virus, tens of billions of baht will be lost," said Chamroon Wisawachaipan, chairman of Pattaya's business and tourism association. >> Nothing about any 17 bars being closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 "after health authorities raised the flu alert level in the resort town following human-to-human transmission cases" What are they going on about here? Human-to-human cases? It's a mutated flu that is now affecting humans. Of course it is human-to-human. Fear mongering at its worst. Christ. It's the frigging flu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 On the one hand, all this hysteria seems over the top, this flu being quite mild, and killing less that the normal flu does, in the same way (people with other complications). On the other, if h1n1 does mutate, and mutate to be worse (remember mutation could take a harmless direction), then such hysteria would seem justified. Herein a question. If the measures to control and presumably defeat this pandemic, have any reasonable hope of succeeding, then what could happen if we applied them to the normal Flu? Or other diseases, like Aids, Diabetes, and Loud Behavior? Seems to me that quarantine, isolation, ostracizing, enforced treatment and general heavy handedness would fix most of our ills. Coss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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