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Thailand
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Malaria
Malaria is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A parasitic disease transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito.
- Symptoms
- Unexplained fever and/or other clinical signs such as headache, back pain, chills, sweating, muscle pain, nausea and vomiting, often with an enlarged spleen and anaemia.
- Incubation period
- From several days to one month.
- Prevention
- Travellers to affected countries should obtain chemoprophylaxis. Avoid the outdoors after sunset, use repellents and insecticides, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
- Precautions
- Travellers to affected countries should obtain chemoprophylaxis. Avoid the outdoors after sunset, use repellents and insecticides, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
Dengue fever
Dengue fever is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A viral disease transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito infected with one of four different dengue virus serotypes.
- Symptoms
- Mild fever to a severe rise in temperature, with severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and a skin rash.
- Incubation period
- From 3 days to two weeks, usually about 4 to 7 days.
- Prevention
- No vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Avoid the outdoors after sunset, use repellents and insecticides, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
- Precautions
- No vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Avoid the outdoors after sunset, use repellents and insecticides, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
Zika virus
Zika virus transmission occurs. Protect against mosquito bites; pregnant women should postpone travel.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A viral disease transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.
- Symptoms
- Raised temperature, skin rash, conjunctival redness, muscle and joint pain, headache and general weakness.
- Incubation period
- 14 days.
- Prevention
- Pregnant women should postpone travel to protect the foetus; if travel is essential, follow personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
- Precautions
- Pregnant women should postpone travel to protect the foetus; if travel is essential, follow personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
Chikungunya
Chikungunya is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A disease transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.
- Symptoms
- Fever and excruciating joint pain, as well as muscle pain, headache, vomiting, fatigue and a skin rash.
- Incubation period
- 12 days.
- Prevention
- No vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
- Precautions
- No vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
Japanese encephalitis
Japanese encephalitis is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A viral disease transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.
- Symptoms
- Most infections are mild (fever and headache) or without symptoms; about 1 in 250 cases progresses to severe illness (fever, headache, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, seizures and spastic paralysis).
- Incubation period
- 5 to 15 days.
- Prevention
- No mandatory vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
- Precautions
- No mandatory vaccination; observe personal protection against mosquito bites. Use repellents, sleep under nets, and wear long sleeves and trousers.
Cholera
Cholera is present. Oral cholera vaccination and safe food and water practices are recommended.
Disease guide
- Definition
- An acute bacterial intestinal disease that can cause death within hours if untreated.
- Symptoms
- Ranges from mild cases with diarrhoea only to a severe sudden form with profuse painless watery stools and sometimes vomiting, leading to fluid loss, rapid dehydration and kidney failure.
- Incubation period
- 5 days.
- Prevention
- Oral cholera vaccination is advised, two doses 14 days apart before travel to affected countries. Observe safe food and water practices.
- Precautions
- Oral cholera vaccination is advised, two doses 14 days apart before travel to affected countries. Observe safe food and water practices.
Mpox (monkeypox)
Mpox (monkeypox) is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A rare zoonotic viral disease (transmitted from animals to humans); its symptoms resemble those once seen in smallpox patients but are less severe.
- Symptoms
- Fever, severe headache, swollen lymph nodes, back and muscle pain and intense weakness, followed within 1 to 3 days by a rash that usually starts on the face and spreads to other parts of the body.
- Incubation period
- 21 days.
- Prevention
- Observe personal hygiene and avoid contact with infected people or animals. No mandatory vaccination.
- Precautions
- Observe personal hygiene and avoid contact with infected people or animals. No mandatory vaccination.
Anthrax
Anthrax is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.
Disease guide
- Definition
- A bacterial zoonotic disease that mainly affects livestock and is transmitted to humans through contact with infected animals or their products.
- Symptoms
- Depending on the route of infection: an itchy skin lesion that turns into a black ulcer, or fever, cough and chest or abdominal symptoms.
- Incubation period
- 1 to 7 days.
- Prevention
- No vaccination for travellers; avoid contact with infected animals and untreated animal products.
- Precautions
- No vaccination for travellers; avoid contact with infected animals and untreated animal products.
Routine
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Measles
Measles is circulating. Ensure routine measles immunisation is up to date before travel.
Disease guide
- Definition
- An acute, highly contagious viral disease.
- Symptoms
- Fever and a skin rash with runny nose, conjunctivitis and cough; characterised by white spots on the oral mucosa, with the rash usually appearing on the fourth day of fever.
- Incubation period
- Usually 10 days, ranging from 7 to 14 days.
- Prevention
- Review and update routine measles immunisation before travel.
- Precautions
- Review and update routine measles immunisation before travel.