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Thailand says mpox case recorded in foreigner travelling from Africa

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – 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.

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.

(Reporting by Pararat Thepgumpanat; Editing by Martin Petty and Tom Hogue)

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