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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.
COVID-19 Spurs Thailand’s Rise as Global Medical Hub
Published on 29/09/2020
» When Professor Sir Nick White arrived in Thailand from Oxford University 40 years ago to join a small medical research unit, his duties included treating malaria and milking venomous snakes. Today, from his base at Bangkok’s Mahidol University, he leads an international team conducting a worldwide COVID-19 drug trial.
When confusion goes viral
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 03/02/2020
» Movie lovers like me have been drawn irresistibly to Dark Waters, the 2019 American legal thriller that has won positive reviews from critics and accolades for lead actor Mark Ruffalo.
Better safe than sorry
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 19/03/2018
» Human capacity for dealing with infectious diseases continues to improve, thanks to the lessons learned from recent outbreaks such as Sars and Ebola, and a growing global commitment toward improving public health. But factors such as population growth, urbanisation, natural disasters and climate change continue to leave many countries at higher risk from infectious diseases and pandemic outbreaks.