Thailand’s 4th case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Bangkok on Friday. The patient is a lady with a record associated with visiting entertainment venues popular with foreign travelers.
Section of Disease Control director-general Opas Karnkawinpong said on Friday that the latest situation is a 22-year-old lady who regularly stopped at areas at risk of monkeypox transmission.
He stated the woman developed a fever on This summer 29 but still visited entertainment places in Bangkok with her Thai and foreign friends. On July 30, she started to have blisters on her arms and legs before these people spread to her lovemaking organ and other body parts.
On Wednesday, the woman sought treatment in a hospital in Samut Prakan. Results of lab tests conducted by the Medical Sciences Division and Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medication indicated that she had been infected with monkeypox on Thursday.
She was later transferred to Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute within Nonthaburi, said Dr Opas.
The patient was the country’s fourth monkeypox case and the country’s 1st woman who captured the disease. The first case was a Nigerian man, the second a Thai man in Bangkok plus the 3rd a German man within Phuket.
Dr Opas stated he had instructed the 6th Disease Manage Office in Chon Buri to work closely with the Institute for Urban Disease Manage and Prevention and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Health Department to trace down those who were in close contact with the woman, including 2 of her roommates.
The official stressed the monkeypox disease does not spread easily between people.
On July 22, 2022, Phuket provincial health officials clean a condo where a Nigerian man confirmed to have Thailand’s first recorded case of monkeypox, acquired stayed. (Photo: Department of Disease Control)