In Thailand, a case of MPOX was detected in a European who had travelled from Africa. The test results to determine the strain of the pathogen are now awaited, according to a disease control official.
Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the clade 1 form of Mpox because the person, a 66-year-old European resident in Thailand, had arrived on August 14 from an African country where the disease was spreading, Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of disease control, told Reuters on Wednesday.