Contagious diseases in Thailand

🦠 retracing the infectious diseases in Thailand from the past to the present.

In the past 60 years, Thailand has faced many waves of "invisible enemies." 😷

These diseases not only challenge the public health system 🏥, but also change the way we live forever.

Today, Admin brought a little knowledge for his friends to read. 💙

🤔 What is a new contagious disease?

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Is

🔹 A new disease that never happened.

🔹 an old disease that was once controlled, but it's back.

🔹 Diseases spread to new areas.

The main reasons are often

🌍 Climate change

✈️ Travel and moving population

🐒 Intimate contact between people and animals.

🦟 "Mosquito" disease carriers.

📌 1957 - Dengue fever (Dengue)

The mosquito is a carrier 🦟 heavy rainy season. It is endemic in Thailand every year.

📌 1970 - Chikungunya (Chikungunya)

It's like dengue, but it's so heavy that it can barely walk. 🦴

📌 2016 - Zika virus (Zica)

The harm to pregnant women 🤰 can cause the baby to be small-headed and slow to develop.

😷 Respiratory Disease Group & Animal to Human Virus

🦇 1999 - Nipah virus (Nipah)

From bats pigs people

Causing severe cerebral inflammation. 🧠

🦠 2003 - SARS (SARS)

Severe respiratory disease. Exhaust spread. 💨

🐔 2004 - H5N1 bird flu

Attached from poultry to people. High mortality rate. ⚠️

🐷 2009 - Influenza 2009 (H1N1)

Mixed viruses from pigs, birds and people. Global epidemic. 🌍

🐫 2012 - MERS (MERS)

From bats camels people

The death rate is quite high.

🇰🇷 2015 - Mers outbreak in South Korea

There is a case that slips into Thailand, causing very strict surveillance.

🦠 2020 - COVID-19 (COVID-19)

A historic outbreak 😷 changed the lives of the whole world.

💊 Bacterial group & drug-resistant

📌 1980 - Drug-resistant tuberculosis

Caused by incomplete medication or misuse of medication

📌 1987 - Cholera

Stuck from water and unclean food 🚰 severe diarrhea

📌 2000 - drug-resistant sepsis (AMR)

It's not a single disease, it's a big problem in the world. 🌍

📌 2002 - Anthrax

Attached to ruminants, such as cows, buffalo, 🐄

☠️ Other serious disease groups

🩸 1984 - HIV / AIDS

Destroy immunity. Blood and sex contact.

🐀 1994 - Black Death

Rat-borne fleas (very few are currently found)

🧬 2014 - Ebola

Severe dengue. The mortality rate is very high.

🐒 2022 - Smallpox (Mpox)

Animal to human contact and human to human transmission.

📊 The remarks are interesting.

In the last 20 years, you will see

📈 New diseases are becoming more frequent.

🐾 Most are diseases that cross from animals to people.

🌍 more connected to the modern world way of life.