Flu

1. Stay home if you are sick with influenza-like illness for example, fever or chills AND cough or sore throat. In addition, symptoms of flu can include runny nose, body aches, headache, tiredness, diarrhea, or vomiting. CDC recommends that sick workers stay home if they are ill with influenza-like illness until at least 24 hours after they are free of fever (100° F [37.8° C] or greater) or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medications. This would require employees to stay home for 3 to 5 days in most cases. The Center for Disease Control recommends this time period away from work regardless of whether or not antiviral medications are used.

The Thai Cabinet on July 14 approved a budget of 850 million baht to be used in dealing with the current influenza A (H1N1) worldwide crisis, which has hurt the tourism economy, and at least 24 Thais have died, while more than 4,000 people across the country have contracted this strain of the flu.

The “Pattaya Be Our Guest” tourism stimulus program gets underway to counter declines in tourists arrivals in Pattaya following exaggerated and misleading local and international press reports of the H1N1 virus. Now that Pattaya has been declared safe as any other resort city in the world the local government and hoteliers want to encourage a revival in tourism.

Thousands of people are now very worried about the latest strain of influenza virus, which is able to spread from person to person through the air.

Most people are aware that influenza, commonly known as ‘flu’, is more severe than a ‘cold’. It is caused by an influenza virus which can mutate into different strains. This is why it has the ability to cause an epidemic every year.