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Bangkok: The case of ampoxepandene detected in Thailand this week was the Clade 1B strain, they confirmed on Thursday. This is the second case of the dangerous species being found outside Africa. This case is of a 66-year-old European man who came to Thailand from an African country last week.
It is worth noting that this disease has already spread badly in Africa. “The test results confirmed that he is infected with the Clade 1B strain of monkeypox, the first case found in Thailand, but this person is likely to have another variant of the disease.” Reuters has been infected from the affected country.
Its lethal form is causing concern worldwide
No other local infections have been detected through contact tracing, he told the agency. Clade 1b has sparked global concern because it spreads easily through regular close contact. A case of the variant was confirmed in Sweden last week and linked to a growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign of spread outside the continent.
WHO has declared a health emergency
After the new strain was identified, the World Health Organization declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency of international concern. Thailand said on Wednesday that the man confirmed to have MPox had travelled to an unidentified Middle Eastern country before traveling to Thailand. Thailand has detected 800 cases of MPox clade 2 since 2022, but no cases of clade 1 or clade 1b variants have been reported so far.