The Ministry of Public Health will not yet declare monkeypox a "serious communicable disease" under Thailand's 2015 Communicable Disease Act but it will boost screenings for the disease.
Despite rejecting a proposal to heighten the health alert, the ministry's committee, comprising medical and health experts, approved the ministry's prompt reaction to the current worldwide spread of the viral disease, said Dr Chakrarat Pittayawonganon, director of the Bureau of Epidemiology. He made the remarks after the committee met on Tuesday.
The ministry announced over the weekend that it would raise surveillance measures for monkeypox after the first case was detected in Thailand -- a Nigerian man who later fled to Cambodia where he was apprehended.
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