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Surviving the Flood in Bangkok
Written by Richard S. Ehrlich
Monday, 07 November 2011
So far, despite the rising waters, the inner city remains dry
Thailand?s floods are creeping inexorably closer to central Bangkok, prompting warnings about how to avoid disease, electrocution, poisonous snakes, crocodiles and other dangers in the infectious, garbage-strewn water, which is moving across the city at about a mile a day.
Although the Disease Control Department says the threat of communicable diseases is not serious, the filthy water has the potential to cause a cocktail of communicable diseases including cholera, diphtheria, dysentery and leptospirosis, a usually rare but severe bacterial infection that includes pain, dry cough and other ailments. Two leptospirosis deaths have been reported plus one from cholera although none have been reported in Bangkok itself. Parents have been warned to keep their children from swimming in the contaminated water.
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Written by Richard S. Ehrlich
Monday, 07 November 2011
So far, despite the rising waters, the inner city remains dry
Thailand?s floods are creeping inexorably closer to central Bangkok, prompting warnings about how to avoid disease, electrocution, poisonous snakes, crocodiles and other dangers in the infectious, garbage-strewn water, which is moving across the city at about a mile a day.
Although the Disease Control Department says the threat of communicable diseases is not serious, the filthy water has the potential to cause a cocktail of communicable diseases including cholera, diphtheria, dysentery and leptospirosis, a usually rare but severe bacterial infection that includes pain, dry cough and other ailments. Two leptospirosis deaths have been reported plus one from cholera although none have been reported in Bangkok itself. Parents have been warned to keep their children from swimming in the contaminated water.
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