Thread: Refugee camp closed after H1N1 cases

Outbreak feared in Thailand as three infections found in Mae Hong Son.

HEALTH AUTHORITIES are trying to control an outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) at a refugee camp in Mae Hong Son after three infections were confirmed.

“The three patients are quarantined and we haven’t found any other cases of the disease to date,” the province’s public-health chief Dr Prasert Kitsuwannaratana said yesterday. Prasert said residents at the Mae La Ma Luang refugee camp in Mae Hong Son’s Sop Moei district started developing flu-like symptoms around August 14 or 15.

Some of them underwent further lab tests after they showed no signs of recovery. Test results on August 21 confirmed that three residents were infected with H1N1, also known as swine flu virus.

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So where do refugees goy now? Hmm, don't understand, they must go somewhere.

WHO assesses the H1N1 virus as an influenza virus of similar significance to any other virus currently abroad in the world and views it as relatively innocuous and non-lethal to most groups although the very young and the old with underlying medical conditions should be monitored.

This quarantine is bollocks.