Thailand reports first suspected case of new Mpox strain after Sweden

After Sweden, Thailand has detected the first suspected case of new Mpox strain — Clade 1b, the country’s health department informed on Wednesday.

Both Thailand and Sweden are the first outside of Africa to see Mpox cases of the Clade 1b variant after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently declared a global health



emergency.

Thai health authorities found that the patient has a travel history to Congo.

“The Department of Disease Control found a patient with suspected clade 1 smallpox. The first person in Thailand travelled from Congo,” said Dr. Thongchai Keerati Hatthayakorn, Director General of the Department of Disease Control, in a statement.