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Its not an STD. Some people have gotten it from other types of contact. Standing very close to someone in the BTS with touching is enough. For the wife, I’d worry about genital herpes long before monkeypox.

Again. In Thailand people got vaccinated for smallpox to a much later date than in the west. Plenty of people in the scene have the vaccine scar on their arm. Those vaccines are lifetime effective and cross protect against monkeypox. This is the current hypothesis of why some countries have almost no spread. I can tell you with absolute certainty that this disease is not strongly underreported. Those blisters are huge, very painful and very visible. If you simply don’t have sex with anyone with blisters, your chance to get monkeypox go from absolutely neglible to theoretically possible in Thailand. If you are still worried, get vaccinated. Several countries in the west have started vaccinating At risk groups. In France we get a lot of foreigners coming here for vaccination.

funny thing is, I am absolutely not prone to stomach trouble :-D reverse world.

A side note. Many western people wear T shirts with the face of Che Guevara on it. That man was a real monster. I have always found that equally apprehensive.

Everytime I take prep, I have pretty bad diarhea and stopach pain, taking it for a month makes side effects dissapear. Stopping prep makes them dissapear 3 days after. most people are more lucky.

Thats just… wrong. I get the swastika has more meanings than just nazi propaganda but to exhibit it like this on a flag is just bad taste.

9400 +Dengue cases this year in Thailand. 9500 road deaths in 2021 About 50 cases of Trichinosis a year Seems a bit silly to worry about the 4 cases of monkeypox of which 2 were foreign nationals when you accept the risks above. Context is everything. Only realistic preventure measure is to avoid contact with people who have blisters. I assume that goes without saying.

You can theoretically transmit it in many many ways of contact, I’m sure bedsheets is possible) In practice, it’s most often transmitted through intense physical contact (aka sex). Almost all victims are men who have sex with men. your chances of conteacting it in Thailand are very low in my opinion.

We stopped vaccinating for smallpox in the west 50 years ago because the disease was erradicated. Lesser developed countries stopped vaccinating much later than the west. In Thailand I have seen quite a few younger people with the typical smallpox vaccine scar. This vaccine works a lifetime and should at least strongly protect against monkeypox. Ergo. 1. If you are older and still got this vaccine, you really should not worry at all. 2. If (I have no info how many younger people Thailand are innoculated) a decent amount of sexworkers/civilians in Thailand got innoculated, chance of getting infected is very very low when mongering. As far as I know, Thailand has gotten very few monkeypox cases. Seeing this disease is pretty visible, I don't think there has been a huge underreported outbreak. I read they have 4 cases of which 2 are foreign nationals. If you come into contact with someone who has obvious blisters, go to the hospital and get vaccinated. The vaccines tend to still have effect when taken after the moment of (possible) infection.

Chula Bhesaj pharmacy on Rama 4. They supply prep to Pulse but sell to individuals if you ask for it.

Southeast pharmacy has Arimidex, 100% sure.

One thing to mention. These tests are quite unreliable when you don’t have overt symptoms. They don’t pick up tiny amounts of virus.

I uploaded my bill from agoda. It explicily states that it involves a quarantine packadge including pcr test. My thaipass got approved.

Welcome good sir!

oh yes 100%. For mongering though, I much prefer condo's. I feel more free without staff around me and ID checks :-)

Crazy numbers, I got a fare of 450$ from Paris to BKK next month. Absolute bottom prices in Europe. A friend flying from Belgium, has a similar rate. Flying emirates.

I agree, there are cases of lower bone density. Long term (+2y) has some risks. Dosing however isn’t difficult at all. Arimidex is very effective even at lower doses. Are there any other reasons TRT doctors advise against it? I’m not super familliar with TRT, did read some papers and talked to local collegues about it.

I assume he’s a nurse? I have worked in several countries (I consult and teach as well) and wherever I go, nurses, logistical employees etc are always squeezed like a grapefruit. During covid they work in super hot protective clothing and hard to breathe masks. Sometimes they work double or triple shifts. It’s absolutely shameful they get squeezed like this. They are the backbone of healthcare. 1.5% is very little imho. In my hospital most doctors pitched in to divide our bonus among them.

Thanks for that. I'll be humble though, beside volunteering to administer vaccinations and helping out with the research and data, I don't have any real contact with covid patients. The nurses having close contact with em are the real heroes of this crisis.

While younger people do die, they remain outliers even now. Everywhere I read newspapers, they are pushing the fact that young people die and get seriously ill to the point where there is the sentiment that this is common. It still isn't. The median age of people in the ICU is however decreasing. In my hospital the youngest person in the ICU is 47, out of 68 ICU beds that are all occupied. Even non vaccinated, I would worry a lot more about traffic than about covid in the LOS.

the injecting part is not the dangerous bit lol.

I would not recommend every guy over the qge of 40 to get T treatments. I'm sorry that's just idiotic. If you have low T, I would recommend aromatase blockers to most people. Arimidex for instance. If that does not help, then you can try T treatment. If and only if you have low T levels. T therapy has side effects. That being said, it's a free world and I'm very liberal. Feel free to reject my advice :-D

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1 not peer reviewed, very prelimerary. several weak points. This is not a causality but a correlative study. Too little subjects, all from two cities in China. The sample sizes is my biggest issue, for good data on blood groups you need 50000-100000 data points due to overrepresentation of some blood groups within participants. Summary: It’s not fake news but only slightly indicative at best. No reason to assume A+ is more at risk at this point.

A+ here too. Trump is spreading half fake news here. Yes Azithromycin + chloroquine have been effective on small scales with very ill people. Effects have been moderate at best. Much better medication will be found in the next few months. Would you want to take meds that could potentially make you sicker (both meds have side effects) when tested only on small samples? Think of how ill you would need to be for that to sound like a good option. Some extra info that I found out yesterday, J&J has a HIV vaccine in fase 3 of testing, primary results are looking good. (sorry if this is general knowledge, I didn't know)

The testing bias will be strong with this one. I would bet money the actual stats are waaaaaaay less.