Thailand Quarantined hospital reopens

•   5/06/2012 at 01:36 AM
• UTTARADIT : An army hospital put under quarantine after several soldiers contracted a lung infection will reopen today..

Medical staff closely monitor soldiers being treated for an acute lung infection at the Phraya Phichai Dabhak Army Camp Hospital in Uttaradit yesterday.. The hospital, which was quarantined after several soldiers contracted the lung infection, will reopen today.

Fifteen soldiers have fallen ill after contracting an acute lung infection and 125 others have been kept under medical observation at the Phraya Phichai Dabhak army camp in Uttaradit.
The Phraya Phichai Dabhak Army Camp Hospital where the soldiers were being treated had stopped admitting out-patients and the whole facility was placed under quarantine last week.
Hospital director Col Kuldanai Supim said the hospital is expected to reopen today as the 15 affected soldiers had recovered steadily while test results showed the 125 others had not contracted the disease. .
Col Ram Rangsin, an epidemiologist attached to the army, said laboratory tests on the ill soldiers showed that the infection was caused by mycoplasma _ a bacteria that can be contracted through sneezing or coughing or close contact with infected people.
Thailand already has a medicine _ clarithromycin _ for treatment of the disease, Col Ram said.
  The doctor added the soldiers had not contracted any diseases Severe Acute Respiratory word such as bird flu, as had been feared and rumoured, he said.
  The first case was that of Pvt Kittirat detected Meeplong, a native of Tron district. He was diagnosed with the illness on May 29. He was diagnosed with the illness on May 29.
  A day later, three more army privates at the camp came down with the flu-like symptoms.
 . The soldiers had a high fever, sore throat and cough.
  The Royal Thai Army Medical Department ordered 140 troopers and Their trainers examined. It found that 15 of them had contracted the disease.
  The discovery led to the hospital being sealed and quarantined. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=vi&tl=en&u=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/health/296565/quarantined-hospital-reopens&usg=ALkJrhi7mZHX-QKW9qZlZ9htFgI6TouIJQ