Girl's skin infection identified
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The six-year-old girl treated at Chachoengsao Hospital with purple spots on her legs that looked like a mysterious Vietnamese skin disease, in fact had a noncontagious autoimmune disease triggered by bacteria infection.
Public Health Ministry inspector general Dr Thavatchai Kamoltham yesterday said the girl was recovering from HenochSchonlein purpura, which can be found in 22 persons per 100,000, mostly among children aged 6. It had nothing to do with the far more serious skin disease in Vietnam and the public shouldn’t panic.
Deputy Bangkok Governor Dr Malinee Sukvejvorakij, presiding over the launch yesterday of a veterinarian’s mobile unit, said there had not been a death from rabies in Bangkok from June 2010 to March 2012. However, the city continued to detect rabid dogs and had vaccinated 378,048 of the animals.
The veterinarian’s mobile unit can be contacted at 022487417 or www.vphbma.com
