
PHUKET: A rumour that another case of monkeypox had been detected in Phuket was totally groundless, provincial health office chief Kusak Kukiatkoon said on Wednesday.
The rumour spread around Phuket on Tuesday, that a woman had been found to have monkeypox. According to the rumour, she had a close relationship with the Nigerian man who was Thailand's first confirmed case of this disease. The man has left the country.