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Thai authority: Dead tourist was not infected with E. coli O104
BANGKOK, June 24 (TNA) - Official laboratory tests have found that a British tourist who died in Thailand recently was not infected with the deadly O104 strain of the E. coli bacteria.
Thai Permanent Secretary for Public Health Dr. Paijit Warachit confirmed that the official lab tests had not detected the O104 strain of E. coli in excrement samples of the dead Briton, but had, instead, found plesiomonas shigelloides bacteria, normally causes diseases in aquatic animals, in his blood and urine.
Dr. Paijit noted that the British tourist was discovered to have died from severe dehydration which harmed his blood system and knocked him out. The senior Thai health official said that his ministry's Department of Medical Sciences would, however, confirm soon whether the plesiomonas shigelloides bacteria-born disease could harm human or cause any illness.
Regarding the scarlet fever, which has reportedly infected over 400 people in Hong Kong, killed two of them and caused a week of school closure there this year, Dr. Paijit acknowledged that the fever is normally caused by the Streptococcus Group A bacteria, and that the disease is not new.
Dr. Paijit affirmed that there have been no reports on any fatality caused by the fever in Thailand so far, but he has ordered public health officials nationwide to inculcate local people to prevent themselves from the fever, particularly those in nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools. (TNA)
Thai Permanent Secretary for Public Health Dr. Paijit Warachit confirmed that the official lab tests had not detected the O104 strain of E. coli in excrement samples of the dead Briton, but had, instead, found plesiomonas shigelloides bacteria, normally causes diseases in aquatic animals, in his blood and urine.
Dr. Paijit noted that the British tourist was discovered to have died from severe dehydration which harmed his blood system and knocked him out. The senior Thai health official said that his ministry's Department of Medical Sciences would, however, confirm soon whether the plesiomonas shigelloides bacteria-born disease could harm human or cause any illness.
Regarding the scarlet fever, which has reportedly infected over 400 people in Hong Kong, killed two of them and caused a week of school closure there this year, Dr. Paijit acknowledged that the fever is normally caused by the Streptococcus Group A bacteria, and that the disease is not new.
Dr. Paijit affirmed that there have been no reports on any fatality caused by the fever in Thailand so far, but he has ordered public health officials nationwide to inculcate local people to prevent themselves from the fever, particularly those in nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools. (TNA)
