Evening News – Director General, Department of Medical Sciences Prepare to find volunteers who have had vaccinations. Prevent smallpox before Come in for a blood test to test your immune system. with the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine
open for volunteers Monkey Pox Immunity Test
Dr. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said that volunteers who had “inoculated” chickenpox pox in the early 1980s to draw blood and test with the “smallpox vaccine”, which was kept in reserve. optional because it is an older vaccine
by the Department of Medical Sciences Samples from confirmed cases of “small pox” found in Thailand will be collected and cultured in a laboratory. to test for immunity with the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine.
Still awaiting the results of another high-risk exposure to smallpox monkeys.
For the progress of the monkey pox test results. In a 17 high-risk contact who had been in close contact with a 47-year-old Thai man, the country’s second smallpox patient, is currently under investigation. It will use at least 2 lab results with the same results. Therefore, it can be clearly confirmed that infected or not infected with smallpox monkey
The results of the analysis of monkey pox infection in the patients Found a strain of Western African B.1 that has spread in many European countries. Investigation teams have now disinfected the patients’ homes. And ordered the quarantine of all 16 exposed people, although the first round of lab results came out that no infection was found. but must quarantine and observe symptoms for 21 days
British people queuing in line for monkeypox vaccination
part of England People were queuing in line to walk in to get vaccinated. Preventing “small pox” in front of the hospital In “London” by the vaccine that is injected to the people. As a smallpox vaccine, the British government said the vaccine is limited. Therefore, it will only inject 1 dose per person at the highest risk.
As for the COVID-19 situation in Thailand, today there are 1,664 new cases requiring hospitalization and 26 deaths, while there are 925 in severe cases of pneumonia.
For people with low immunity to COVID-19 or those who have been vaccinated Immunity does not increase is a chronic renal failure patient requiring dialysis, dialysis patients who have had organ transplant surgery bone marrow transplant You can contact to receive ready-made immunosuppressive injections or Long Acting Antibody (LAAB) at the hospital. which the Provincial Communicable Disease Committee determines throughout the country From tomorrow (1 Aug) onwards