NCDC confirms 36 monkeypox cases

NCDC confirms 36 monkeypox cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed a total of 36 confirmed cases of monkeypox and one death from 15 states and the FCT this year.

In its weekly situation report yesterday,  the Centre said  the death was reported in a 40-year-old patient who had underlying co-morbidity and was on immunosuppressive medications.

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It said a total of 141 suspected cases of the disease were recorded in the country from January 1 to June 12.

The report said states that had recorded cases were Lagos (7), Adamawa (5), Delta (3), River (3), Cross River (2), FCT (2), Kano (2), Bayelsa (2), Edo (2), Imo (2), Plateau (2), Nasarawa (1), Niger (1), Oyo (1) and Ondo (1).

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It also put the grand total of confirmed cases in the country for the first case in September 2017 to date at 262.

The NCDC said a monkeypox National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was on May 26 activated in response to the risk assessment conducted which put Nigeria at high risk for a monkeypox outbreak.

It said this was to improve the coordination of related preparedness/response activities across the country.

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