TRAT: Eleven people in two districts have caught a strain of malaria that primarily infected macaques, governor Chamnanwit Terat said on Monday.
The province is on high alert after health authorities revealed that Trat, along with Songkhla and Ranong in the South, accounted for the most infections by the Plasmodium knowlesi parasite.
Nine of the infections were reported on Koh Chang, while the rest were in Bo Rai district. The majority of the patients, according to the governor, lived and/or worked near forests.
