– Scientists in the US have developed a statistical model that can accurately forecast dengue outbreaks in Thailand. Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) affects between 15,000 and...
– BANGKOK – Thailand’s Department for Disease Control has warned parents about a rotavirus that has killed Four people from acute diarrhea, including three young children....
– Dengue fever is the world’s most pernicious mosquito-borne virus, afflicting as many as 400 million people a year — making the latest setback in...
– TRAT – Once a smuggling stop for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Thailand’s border town of Bo Rai finds itself on the frontline of a...
PHUKET – An Australian man returned from Thailand has died from the rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis. It is understood to be only...
. . BANGKOK – Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd a spokesperson for Thailand’s Junta government has denied recent rumors that Thailand’s universal healthcare system will be scrapped,...
. . PHUKET – Police Deputy Commander Peerayuth Karajedee in Phuket is looking into allegations that a British couple was drugged, robbed and then raped during...
. . MUKDAHAN – Thirteen teenagers in were hospitalized after digging the grave of a dead dog and eating its body, unaware that it had rabies,...
. . BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry is considering testing all pregnant women for Zika, an official said on Monday, following confirmation last week of...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Department of Disease Control, told reporters in Bangkok yesterday that the Zika virus had caused two cases of microcephaly, a condition...
. BANGKOK – Southeast Asian countries said on Friday they were bracing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus, with Malaysia saying it could spread quickly if introduced,...
. . BANGKOK – After a year which saw an explosion of Dengue fever infections, Thailand is bracing itself for an even worse 2016 with experts...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is urging the general public to take precautionary measures against the spread of dengue fever, assuring...
. . DENMARK – Scientists might have accidentally made a huge step forward in the search for a cure for cancer — discovering unexpectedly that a...
You hear the term “detox” sprinkled all over lifestyle and health ads, but most people aren’t exactly sure what it means to detox, other than to...
CHIANG RAI – Deputy DDC Director-General Nopporn Cheanklin of the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has said he is ready to deal with public illnesses...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health Minister Dr. Rajata Rajatanavin has unveiled major policie changes for 2015 aimed at extending health services for Thai...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has stepped up surveillance measures against chickenpox, which has reportedly intensified during winter.Sources at the Ministry of Public...
– – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific...
CHIANG RAI – A cold snap has hit many parts of Thailand leaving tens of thousands of people living in cold conditions for lack of...