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12 people being monitored after monkeypox contact

Tourists queue on arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport. Health officials are watching for possible cases of monkeypox, the latest global health scare.(Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

Health officials are monitoring the condition of 12 people who were in close contact with a traveller diagnosed with monkeypox who transited through Thailand for two hours while en route to Australia.

Chakarat Pittayawonganon, director of epidemiology at the Department of Disease Control, said on Monday that the 12 people were passengers and flight attendants on the same flight as the confirmed case.

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