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Kao's New Mosquito Repellent Combats Dengue Fever Challenges
Published on 21/06/2024
» Thailand in 2024 is forecasted to experience the highest rainfall and highest temperatures due to the emerging climate change crisis. The risks caused by such phenomena can undermine authorities’ efforts in eliminating the recent years’ high records of increasingly mosquito-borne diseases led by dengue fever, chikungunya, zika virus, and malaria as puddling landscapes and heat only help support more mosquito breeding sites. Moreover, mosquitoes are developing resistance to insecticides.
The key to transforming a health crisis
Oped, Published on 25/04/2024
» Despite the relentless stream of bad news from around the world, there are still reasons for optimism. One notable example is the renewed push to localise pharmaceutical production in Africa, demonstrating how even catastrophic events like a pandemic can lead to positive, unforeseen outcomes.
Korat on high alert amid concerns of Zika outbreak
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/01/2024
» Nakhon Ratchasima: The province's public health authorities are bracing for a possible Zika virus outbreak, as at least 19 people have been infected across the lower Northeast region, the Office of Disease Prevention and Control for the 9th Region said on Monday.
Alarm sounded over syphilis infections
Published on 30/12/2023
» Health officials are looking to tighten preventive and control measures after finding higher rates of syphilis and gonorrhoea among young people, says Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew.
Zika cases prompt health alert
Published on 12/12/2023
» Residents of Prachuap Khiri Khan are being warned to remain cautious after six cases of the Zika virus were diagnosed in the province.
Invasive species a growing and costly threat, key report to find
AFP, Published on 04/09/2023
» PARIS: Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed assessment is poised to report.
Dealing with dengue, Zika
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/07/2023
» Concern over an increase in mosquito-borne disease cases deserves more attention from our government and broader society.
110 people infected with Zika since January
Online Reporters, Published on 27/07/2023
» A total of 110 people have been infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus since January this year and the number of infections has continued rising since May, according to the Public Health Ministry.
Vaccine researchers team up with US
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/05/2023
» Thailand’s National Vaccine Institute (NVI) has joined hands with the US Vaccine Research Centre (VRC) for vaccines against tuberculosis, including Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.
Super-resistant mosquitoes in Asia pose growing threat: study
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» TOKYO - Mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other viruses have evolved growing resistance to insecticides in parts of Asia, and novel ways to control them are desperately needed, new research warns.