I'm not being argumentative (sad that I have to qualify that with you), but I think he knows that. Mozzies are the vectors, but humans as the host can transport the virus to a places far beyond where a carrier mozzie could go, where the local mozzie vectors can re-spread the infection.
Hope your son gets better soon. It's a miserable illness, spent over a week in bed but felt weak and feeble for a good month after
^^Wow. Totally lost me there. I'm honestly not clear at all what you're saying. That humans carry the mosquitoes on their person? Sorry, just don't understand.
Cool you're reaching out and asking.
No, humans don't carry the mosquitoes. A human gets bitten and becomes infected, and carries the virus to another place whereupon a local mosquitoe bites him and then, as the vector, spreads the disease to a person in the new location. The virus is now in that new place, spread locally by mozzies, but taken there initially by the human carrier.
^Cool. Got it. Had me lost for a bit. I had dengue in 1979 in Sri Lanka....hopefully never again. At first I thought it was a relapse of malaria that I got in Vietnam ten years earlier, but it wasn't....I thought the dengue was worse. Kicked my ass.
Further to that, just a little sideline... the last time I had it and knew it after the hospital, and was at home, I noticed mozzies in my bedroom attempting to bite me which was/is very unusual, and it occurred to me that perhaps in being infected my body was emmiting a pheromone sort of thing to attract the mosquitoes. The virus needs to spread.
Just a thought based on the coincidence of me being infected and mozzies very unusually coming into the air-conned bedroom.
If you have the virus and a mosquito of the variety that can carry the virus bites you it then becomes infected with the virus, in a area with a high population like Rawai the virus is then easily spread to other people who then spread it to other mosquitoes when they bite these infected people, its a never ending cycle that can only be stopped by the local government fogging the whole area, which they do not do, they only flog the houses where someone has been infected not the surrounding properties
Lets get the facts straight, our son went to the Dibuk hospital with flue symptoms plus a very bad headache after he had these symptoms for several days
They did not give him a blood test to check what was wrong with him even though dengue fever is all over Rawai, and sent him home with common pain killers throat lozengers and penicillin which we already had given him
After 7 days and his headaches becoming unbearable (he had not slept for 4 days) i sent him to the Bangkok hospital where they gave him a blood test that confirmed he had dengue and admitted him on the spot( after being paid 50K baht up front)
His condition is now improving and he has been shifted from the ICU unit to a room, his headaches and now bearable and they want his blood count correct before they release him from hospital
You are right. It's quite dumb to spray in very localised limited areas. I guess the budget for fogging is directed somewhere else. In my city (Hatyai) they fog entire neighbourhoods at 4 am whenever anyone rings up to complain that there's too many mozzies, even without any reports of dengue. After my last bout my Mrs was ringing every couple of months. She got very paranoid about mozzies. She even got some packets of some sort of powder from the council and was sprinking it in all the neighbours' fish bowls to kill wrigglers (although I think if there's fish, there would be no wrigglers/larvae).
Unfortunately, there's a swamp at the end of my soi, and that is never treated. There will always be mozzies coming in from the swamp.
Just asking.. google may be required... is it 4 days after onset of fever or 4 days after the mozzie bite? I did a lot of reading when I got dengue, and I seem to recall that the latter is the case, but I may be wrong. Once fever is evident, it means the virus is rampant in your body.
Could be Peter's hospital was remiss.
When I came down with the fever the hospital said I had to come back in 4 days to be tested for Dengue. That I did and it was confirmed.
If you were to go to the hospital every 4th day after being bit by a mossie you may as well stay at the hospital permanently.
When I came down with the fever the hospital said I had to come back in 4 days to be tested for Dengue. That I did and it was confirmed.
If you were to go to the hospital every 4th day after being bit by a mossie you may as well stay at the hospital permanently.
Symptoms usually start 4 to 7 days after you are bitten by an infected mosquito. Sometimes it may be as long as 2 weeks before you start having symptoms. Symptoms of dengue fever may include: Sudden high fever.
Slightly less than 2 years ago, after a day of feeling pretty crap, M'Sahib made me go to hospital (Dibuk, the same one that Peter said sent his son home without testing), where I had a blood test, type 2 (Hemorraghic) Dengue confirmed, and admitted as a patient for 6 days. On a drip for fluids for all that time, with blood tests taken every 4 hours, temperature and BP every 2 hours if I remember rightly. Once my white blood cell count was high enough, was discharged. Total bill came to 40,000 baht which I thought was pretty good, as was the room which was spacious, en-suite etc.
Beside the point. I was asking about the pathology.
Jeepers! Even my few days at Sikarin and a week at Hatyai Hospital didn't come to half of that. I think my few days at private hospital Sikarin was 10,000 and a week at the government hospital was 7k including meds. Sikarin charge for every last cotton bud or bandaid used.
my wife is a community health worker,she she knows when there is any case's of dengue,last week at a mooban near us she reported a case,3days later another,what she found strange was the 2 case's were in the same street with only a few house's apart.[KORAT]
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