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Monkeypox: NCDC Confirms 157 New Cases, Four Deaths

A total of 157 cases of monkeypox has been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) across 26 states in the country of which 4 deaths were recorded from 4 states.
The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report some weeks ago.
The agency said from January 1 to July 31, 2022, four deaths were recorded from 4 states Delta (1), Lagos (1), Ondo (1) and Akwa Ibom (1).
The report also showed that there were at least 413 suspected cases of the disease in the country.
The report read in part, There were fifty-six (56) new suspected cases reported in Epi week 30, 2022 (25th to 31st July 2022) from nineteen (19) states Ondo (13), Plateau (8), Lagos (6), Adamawa (4), Abia (3), Borno (3), Delta (2), Kano (3), Anambra (2), Bayelsa (2), Kwara (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Gombe (1), Imo (1), Nasarawa (1), Osun (1), Oyo (1), Rivers (1) and Taraba (1).
Out of the fifty-six (56) suspected cases, there were twenty-four(24) new confirmed positive cases in Epi week 30, 2022 from twelve (12) states Ondo (5), Kano (3), Lagos (3), Abia (2), Adamawa (2), Bayelsa (2), Kwara (2), Delta (1), Anambra (1), Gombe (1), Rivers (1) and Nasarawa (1).
According to NCDC reports from 1st January to 31st July 2022, there have now been 413 suspected cases and 157 confirmed cases (105 male, 52 female) from twenty-six (26) states Lagos (20), Ondo (14), Adamawa (13), Delta (12), Bayelsa (12), Rivers (11), Edo (8), Nasarawa (8), Plateau (6), Anambra (6), FCT (5), Taraba (5), Kwara (5), Kano (5), Imo (4), Cross River (3), Borno (3), Oyo (3), Abia (3), Gombe (3), Katsina (2), Kogi (2), Niger (1), Ogun (1), Bauchi (1) and Akwa Ibom (1).
According to NCDC, four deaths were recorded from 4 states Delta (1), Lagos (1), Ondo (1) and Akwa Ibom (1).
Overall, since the re-emergence of monkeypox in September 2017 and to 31st July 2022, a total of 925 suspected cases have been reported from 35 states in the country.
Meanwhile, monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans that occur sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and West Africa near tropical rainforests.
