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Thailand Says Mpox Case Recorded in Traveller from Africa 

The logo for Thailand's Department of Disease Control is pictured after officials hold a press conference on the suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox in Bangkok on August 21, 2024. (AFP)
The logo for Thailand's Department of Disease Control is pictured after officials hold a press conference on the suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox in Bangkok on August 21, 2024. (AFP)
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Thailand Says Mpox Case Recorded in Traveller from Africa 

The logo for Thailand's Department of Disease Control is pictured after officials hold a press conference on the suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox in Bangkok on August 21, 2024. (AFP)
The logo for Thailand's Department of Disease Control is pictured after officials hold a press conference on the suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox in Bangkok on August 21, 2024. (AFP)

Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday.

Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person, a 66-year-old European man with residency in Thailand had arrived on Aug. 14 from an African country where it was spreading, Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, told Reuters.

"After he arrives from the flight there is very little time frame where he come into contact with others," Thongchai said. "He arrives around 6 pm and on the next day, Aug 15, he went to see the doctor at the hospital."

Thongchai said the man has undergone a test to determine whether the case was a Clade 1 variant, with the result expected by Friday. Authorities are also monitoring 43 people in the country who may come into contact with the patient, he said.

The director-general did not name the African country the man had been in. He said the man had transited in a Middle Eastern country, which he also did not name, before flying on to Thailand.

Thailand has detected 800 cases of mpox Clade 2 since 2022, but so far not detected a case of the Clade 1 or Clade 1b variants.

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Ukraine Attacks Moscow in One of Largest Ever Drone Attacks on Russian Capital

A man rides a scooter near a banner with an advertising poster calling for military conscription depicting Russian soldiers and the slogan 'Payments from 5,200,000 (about 52,000 Euro) for the first year of service' in Moscow, Russia, 20 August 2024. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
A man rides a scooter near a banner with an advertising poster calling for military conscription depicting Russian soldiers and the slogan 'Payments from 5,200,000 (about 52,000 Euro) for the first year of service' in Moscow, Russia, 20 August 2024. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
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Ukraine Attacks Moscow in One of Largest Ever Drone Attacks on Russian Capital

A man rides a scooter near a banner with an advertising poster calling for military conscription depicting Russian soldiers and the slogan 'Payments from 5,200,000 (about 52,000 Euro) for the first year of service' in Moscow, Russia, 20 August 2024. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
A man rides a scooter near a banner with an advertising poster calling for military conscription depicting Russian soldiers and the slogan 'Payments from 5,200,000 (about 52,000 Euro) for the first year of service' in Moscow, Russia, 20 August 2024. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV

Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defenses in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022.
The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle across the fields, forests and villages of eastern Ukraine, escalated on Aug. 6 when Ukraine sent thousands of soldiers into Russia's western Kursk region.
For months, Ukraine has also fought an increasingly damaging drone war against the refineries and airfields of the world's second largest oil exporter, though major drone attacks on the Moscow region - with a population of over 21 million - are rarer.
Russia's defense ministry said it destroyed a total of 45 drones over Russian territory, including 11 over the Moscow region, 23 over the border region of Bryansk, six over the Belgorod region, three over the Kaluga region and two over the Kursk region.
Some of the drones were destroyed over the city of Podolsk, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. The city in the Moscow region is some 38 kms (24 miles) south of the Kremlin.
"This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow using drones ever," Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app in the early hours of Wednesday.
"The layered defense of Moscow that was created made it possible to successfully repel all the attacks from the enemy UAVs."
The attack comes as Russia is advancing in eastern Ukraine, where it controls about 18% of the territory, and battling to repel Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region, the biggest foreign attack on Russian territory since World War Two.
Russian media showed unverified footage of drones whirring over the dawn sky of the Moscow region and then being shot down in a ball of flame by air defenses.
Moscow's airports Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky limited flights for four hours but were restarted normal operations from 0330 GMT, Russia's aviation watchdog said.
Sobyanin said that according to preliminary information, there were no injuries or damage reported in the aftermath of the attacks. There were also no casualties or damage reported in the aftermath of the attack on Bryansk in Russia's southwest, the governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram.
Russia's RIA state news agency reported that two drones were destroyed over the Tula region, which borders the Moscow region to its north. Vasily Golubev, governor of the Rostov region in Russia's southwest, said air defense forces destroyed a Ukraine-launched missile over the region, with no injuries reported.
The Russia defense ministry did not mention neither Tula nor Rostov in its statement listing destroyed Ukrainian air weapons. Ukraine's military said on Wednesday it overnight struck an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system based in Rostov region.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
The drone attack on Moscow is on a par with the May 2023 attack when at least eight drones were destroyed over the capital in an attack President Vladimir Putin said was Kyiv's attempt to scare and provoke Russia.
In Kursk, Russian war bloggers said that intense battles were ongoing along the front in the region where Ukraine has carved out at least 450 square km (175 square miles) of Russian territory.