The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Adaeze Oreh, confirmed the development at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
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Daodu is a lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin.
The NCDC via its official website on Sunday revealed the states and the number of Monkeypox infections recorded therein.
The NCDC via its official website announced on Sunday that the disease could be spread by close contact and exposure to an infected person’s respiratory droplets, skin lesions or bodily fluids.
The 48 cases were recorded in 16 states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control stated on its website on Saturday.
The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report for week 30.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, disclosed that 11 suspected cases are being monitored in the State.
“Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The campaign was inaugurated Monday in Bulumkutu Ward of the metropolis by the WHO North East Emergency Manager, Dr Richard Lako.
Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of Africa CDC, during a weekly briefing said out of the 1,782 cases of Monkeypox that had been reported in Africa, some 1,678 of them were suspected cases while 104 were confirmed cases.
Dr John Oladejo, the NCDC Director of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, made this assertion Tuesday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the ongoing Second Ibadan Public Health Conference.
The world health body says more than 3,200 cases have been confirmed in 48 countries and in five of its regions globally.
The NCDC disclosed as of June 19, among the 41 cases reported, there has been no evidence of any new or unusual transmission of the virus (such as spreading among the men who have sex with men group) or changes in its clinical manifestation documented in Nigeria (including symptoms, profile and virulence) as compared to other countries in the global north reporting cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a list of safe sexual activities for sexually active patients to follow.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nimkong Lar, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Brou gave the advice Tuesday while presenting the commission’s report on the implementation of the Community Work Programme at this year’s First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament, in Abuja.
The lead health response agency spoke on the allegation in a clarification via its official website on Tuesday.
The report had called on the World Health Organisation to investigate the laboratories in Nigeria linked to the US.
The centre said Nigeria’s risk of exposure to the Monkeypox virus was high based on its recent risk assessment.
The Director-General, NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, told News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday from Abuja, that the investigation is also being done with the Monkeypox Technical Working Group.