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Thailand confirms Asia’s first known case of new deadlier mpox variant
The department of disease control said tests on a traveller had confirmed he was infected with the Clade 1b strain of mpox
Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the country from Africa.
The department of disease control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old had confirmed he was infected with the mpox Clade 1b variant.
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