The Public Health Ministry reported Thailand’s second monkeypox situation on Thursday, a person living with 10 other people in Bangkok.
Public Wellness Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the contaminated person was a 47-year-old who developed a high fever, pain and blisters on the entire body on July 12 and is being taken care of at Vajira Medical center.
The effect of lab tests from the Healthcare Sciences Department confirmed he had been infected with monkeypox, the minister said.
The man informed health authorities he had engaged in sex with foreign men, he or she added.
Opas Karnkawinpong, the Disease Control Department director-general, said 10 individuals living in the same house were considered an at-risk group. That they had been required to go through lab tests and health authorities were waiting for the results.
Officials were trying to find other people who been in close contact with the patient, this individual said.
The first monkeypox case in Asia was obviously a Nigerian man currently under treatment within the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.