Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first case of the new deadlier strain on Monkeypox (Mpox), making it the second country outside of Africa, and the first in Asia, to be hit by the variant.It joins Sweden, which reported its first case of clade 1b monkeypox last week, meaning the virus has now reached two other continents in addition to Africa. Thailand’s patient landed in Bangkok on August 14 and was then sent to hospital with mpox systems.
The country’s Department of Disease Control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old European then confirmed he was infected with the mpox strain causing global alarm.’Thailand’s Department of Disease Control wishes to confirm the lab test result which shows mpox Clade 1b in a European patient,’ the department said in a statement.
