Mpox Case In Thailand Confirmed 1b Clade

PIXABAY ILLUSTRATION

JAKARTA - The case of monkey/moxpox reported in Thailand this week was confirmed as the first type of clade 1b virus, the country's first.

"This man is most likely infected from an endemic state," Thongchai Keeratnyatayakorn, Director General of the Thai Department of Control Control told Reuters on Thursday, August 22.

According to authorities, no other local infections were detected through contact tracing.

Previously Thailand detected a case of monkey/mox smallpox in a European man who arrived from Africa last week. Authorities are waiting for test results to determine the type of virus.

Thai authorities treat the case as if Monkeypox/mox Clade 1, because the 66-year-old European man who lives in Thailand arrived on August 14 from the African country where the virus spreads.

"After he arrived from the flight, there was little time for him to make contact with other people," Thai Department of Disease Control Director General Thongchai Keerathitayakorn told Reuters, Wednesday, August 21.

"He arrived around 6 pm and the next day, August 15, he went to see a doctor at the hospital," he continued.