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Phuket search for missing monkeypox patient

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

A search has been launched for a Nigerian man after lab tests proved he has Thailand's first confirmed case of monkeypox, Phuket deputy governor Pichet Panapong said on Friday.

Mr Pichet said the 27-year-old man was being  tracked down.

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