First monkeypox fatality in Thailand

August 14, 2023

PUBLISHED : 14 Aug 2023 at 15:22

Provincial health officials clean a condominium in Phuket where the country’s first recorded case of monkeypox was found on July 22 last year. Monkeypox is now being referred to as Mpox by global health authorities. (Photo: Department of Disease Control)

Thailand’s first fatality related to monkeypox occurred last week, a Thai man aged 34 years who already had HIV and syphilis, according to health authorities.

Dr Tares Krassanairawiwong, director-general of the…