BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand on Thursday confirmed Asia's first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had traveled to the kingdom from Africa.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand on Thursday confirmed Asia's first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had traveled to the kingdom from Africa.The patient landed in Bangkok on August 14 and was sent to hospital with mpox symptoms.The Department of Disease Control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old European confirmed he was infected with mpox Clade 1b.
Mpox cases and deaths are surging in Africa, where outbreaks have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda since July.The World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency over the new variant of mpox, urging manufacturers to ramp up production of vaccines.
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