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Blood used in Red Shirt protest tainted with severe communicable diseases: medics
BANGKOK, April 1 (TNA) -- The Mahidol University medical group disclosed that test results of blood collected from sites targetted by the Red Shirt blood-pouring protest were tainted with severe communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
The test results of blood samples collected from several sites where the blood-splattering protest took place were tainted with severe diseases, including Hepatitis B and C as well as HIV/AIDS.
Dr Kusol Prawitpaiboon, representative of the Mahidol University medical group, said Thursday while submitting the blood test results to the prime minister's representative Issara Sunthornwat.
The medics expressed concern that the protesters and other people at the blood-pouring sites, who had cuts, might be exposed to the tainted blood and risk contracting the diseases.
The diseases also can live outside the human body in normal condition for about six hours.
Meanwhile, laboratory tests found that the blood used in the symbolic blood-pouring protests included pig and cattle fluids, Dr Kusol said.
Regarding possible HIV/AIDS infection from the splattering protest, Permanent Secretary for Public Health Paichit Varachit explained that the chance of contracting the virus was slim.
The possible HIV/AIDS contraction generally was caused by the virus-concentrated blood infecting through open wounds or the eyes, which were the most sensitive and high-risk spots.
Following past blood-pouring protests, several media workers and cameramen asked for anti-viral pills from the ministry, said Dr Paichit.
Meanwhile, Dr Somsak Lolekha, president of the Medical Council of Thailand, said that the symbolic blood-pouring protest will be raised in the ethics subcommittee meeting on April 8 to consider whether or not such a kind of action violates medical ethics.
Dr Somsak added that persons contracting HIV/AIDS from the protest can make complaint to the council.
Regarding the possibility of contracting the virus, the medical council head said normally it is not easy to be infected unless these persons have injuries and were soaked by the disease-concentrated blood.
The anti-government Red Shirts began the blood-pouring symbolic protest, splattering their own blood at Government House and Democrat Party headquarters on March 16, then at the premier' s residence in the Sukhumvit area on March 17 as part of their intensified campaign topple the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration. (TNA)
The test results of blood samples collected from several sites where the blood-splattering protest took place were tainted with severe diseases, including Hepatitis B and C as well as HIV/AIDS.
Dr Kusol Prawitpaiboon, representative of the Mahidol University medical group, said Thursday while submitting the blood test results to the prime minister's representative Issara Sunthornwat.
The medics expressed concern that the protesters and other people at the blood-pouring sites, who had cuts, might be exposed to the tainted blood and risk contracting the diseases.
The diseases also can live outside the human body in normal condition for about six hours.
Meanwhile, laboratory tests found that the blood used in the symbolic blood-pouring protests included pig and cattle fluids, Dr Kusol said.
Regarding possible HIV/AIDS infection from the splattering protest, Permanent Secretary for Public Health Paichit Varachit explained that the chance of contracting the virus was slim.
The possible HIV/AIDS contraction generally was caused by the virus-concentrated blood infecting through open wounds or the eyes, which were the most sensitive and high-risk spots.
Following past blood-pouring protests, several media workers and cameramen asked for anti-viral pills from the ministry, said Dr Paichit.
Meanwhile, Dr Somsak Lolekha, president of the Medical Council of Thailand, said that the symbolic blood-pouring protest will be raised in the ethics subcommittee meeting on April 8 to consider whether or not such a kind of action violates medical ethics.
Dr Somsak added that persons contracting HIV/AIDS from the protest can make complaint to the council.
Regarding the possibility of contracting the virus, the medical council head said normally it is not easy to be infected unless these persons have injuries and were soaked by the disease-concentrated blood.
The anti-government Red Shirts began the blood-pouring symbolic protest, splattering their own blood at Government House and Democrat Party headquarters on March 16, then at the premier' s residence in the Sukhumvit area on March 17 as part of their intensified campaign topple the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration. (TNA)
