Monkeypox patient missing from hospital

Disease control officials clean the condominium room occupied by the monkeypox infected Nigerian man in Phuket. (Photo: Department of Disease Control)
Disease control officials clean the condominium room occupied by the monkeypox infected Nigerian man in Phuket. (Photo: Department of Disease Control)

A Nigerian man with Thailand’s first confirmed case of monkeypox is reported to have fled a Phuket hospital.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) on Thursday evening reported confirmation of a case of monkeypox, a viral disease, diagnosed in a 27-year-old man who had arrived in Phuket from Nigeria.

Last week, he was admitted to a private hospital with a fever, coughing, sore throat and runny nose, a rash and lesions in his genital area that spread to other parts of his body and face.

A PCR lab test found that the man had monkeypox.

According to Thai media, he left the hospital on Thursday. Matichon online reported that he drove away in a white car.

Police, immigration and disease control officials have been assigned to find him, the reports said

Meanwhile, hospitals, sexual disease clinics and international airports have been alerted to strengthen screening procedures for monkeypox.

According to the World Health Organisation, monkeypox is still primarily found in homosexual groups.

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Vocabulary

  • genitals: a person's sex organs that are outside their body - อวัยวะสืบพันธุ์, ของลับ
  • homosexual: a person, usually a man, who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex - คนรักร่วมเพศ
  • immigration: dealing with people entering and leaving the country - การตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
  • lesion: a damaged part of an organ, such as the lungs or the brain - บาดแผล,แผล,รอยแผลแถบหนึ่งของผิวหนัง
  • procedures (noun): ways of doing something - ขั้นตอนการดำเนินการ
  • rash: an area of red spots that appear on your skin when you are ill or have a bad reaction to something that you have eaten or touched - ผื่นคัน
  • screening: the testing or examining of a large number of people or things for disease, faults, illegal objects, etc - การตรวจ
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