Virus

At the monthly meeting of the Pattaya Business and Tourism Association they held a discussion to examine ways to prevent a second spread of the swine flu that has infected tens of thousands of people in nearby China.

Medical company CSL Limited is to start testing a new swine flu vaccine on volunteers in Adelaide, Australia. This examination has been planned for sometime as the number of people with the A (H1N1) virus has been dramatically increasing.

Bars could be closed for 90 days and must be thoroughly cleaned and opened to sunlight according to new regulations aimed at squashing the spread of the H1N1 virus and other sicknesses.

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.

In an attempt to eradicate the fast-spreading mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, which has ravaged southern provinces from spreading to other parts of Thailand, the Public Health Ministry has established ‘war rooms’ at the Disease Control Department in Bangkok and in the southern province of Trang to end the disease within three months, Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said.