By Kong Sothanarith
September 08, 2014
Cambodia says it has put into place detection measures at its international airports and border crossings to screen for deadly diseases, including Ebola, which continues to plague parts of western Africa.
Machines to detect body temperature are now installed at the Phnom Penh and Siem Reap airports and at the border crossings of Poipet, near Thailand, and Bavet, near Vietnam.
The head of disease control for the Ministry of Health, Ly Sovann, tells VOA's Khmer service the measures are meant to screen for Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Avian influenza, all of which can be deadly for humans.
“Any passengers from China and the Middle East that have body heat over 38 degree Celsius, have sore throat, they are required to go to the hospital to report about their trips,” he said.
Ly Sovann adds that there are no signs so far of disease outbreaks in Cambodia, but he said Cambodians “must remain cautious while traveling in those countries” where the diseases exist.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
This report was produced in collaboration with the VOA Khmer service.
2 comments:
that is nice but they need to consider quarantine not just that person but the whole group of people who travel on same plane or bus as the person suspected of carrying the virus it takes 2 to 21 days before the symptoms show up on the infected person....besides WHO is not telling the whole truth on how this virus really spread , according to them only through body fluid contact but then they refused to say why so many healthcare workers who wore all the protective gear necessary were being infected by the virus...
[ The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa is unprecedented in many ways, including the high proportion of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who have been infected.
To date, more than 240 health care workers have developed the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and more than 120 have died.]
And this a old article from august. if you have ever seen the pictures of the health workers they are all covered from head to toes...plus a new report came out stating the virus has mutated already .i lost that article link, sorry for this one. i would not be surprise at all if this Ebola virus was found to be created in a lab by scientists playing with fire , so to speak.
old article [ Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as "crazy" by opponents...Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used a technique called reverse genetics to build the virus from fragments of wild bird flu strains. They then mutated the virus to make it airborne to spread more easily from one animal to another.
"The work they are doing is absolutely crazy. The whole thing is exceedingly dangerous," said Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society and one time chief science adviser to the UK government. "Yes, there is a danger, but it's not arising form the viruses out there in the animals, it's arising from the labs of grossly ambitious people."]
link
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/25-august-2014/en/
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/11/crazy-dangerous-creation-deadly-airborne-flu-virus
Hey Vietnamese poster -Drgunzet-,
Where is your answer for the seven illegal Vietnamese gangsters in Cambodia who slit the innocent Khmer youth on the left shoulder with a sharp sword?
You said you needed to study about the riot in the U.S. between black community and polices.
LOL...
John
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