A team of provincial health officials cleans a condominium in Phuket where the country’s first recorded case of monkeypox was found on July 22. (Photo: Department of Disease Control)
Health authorities say the number of monkeypox cases in Thailand soared last month and warn men who have sex with men to take precautions as new cases have been spreading among them.
Dr Tares Krassanairawiwong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, said on Sunday that since the country had its first case of monkeypox in July last year, a further 91 cases have been recorded.
“Last month alone there were as many as 48 new cases, about 2.3 times the 21 new cases in May,” he said.
The 48 new cases were all men who had sex with men…
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