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Thailand’s Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha says officials have been asked to identify and collect samples for testing passengers who show symptoms related to monkeypox to guard against the potential spread of the disease in the country.

This handout photo provided by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was taken in 1997 during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. - AFP

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Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said Malaysia supported reforms towards an international health architecture that would avoid the moral failures in the response to Covid-19. - Photo: BERNAMA

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a widespread rash on the face and body, according to the CDC.

A treatment room at a monkeypox quarantine area of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders in Zomea Kaka, the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic on Oct 18, 2018. - AFP

A woman and her child, both infected with monkeypox await treatment at the quarantine of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres - MSF), in Zomea Kaka, in the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic on October 18, 2018.(Photo by CHARLES BOUESSEL / AFP)