Published: 14:13, August 21, 2024
Thailand says mpox case recorded in foreigner travelling from Africa
By Reuters
This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2022 shows mpox virus particles, orange, on the surface of infected cultured cells, green. (PHOTO / AP)

BANGKOK — Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday.

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Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person had arrived on Aug 14 from an African country where it was spreading, Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, told Reuters.

The director-general did not name the African country.