Health
Monkeypox Cases Spread To 26 States, FCT

The reported cases of Monkeypox in Nigeria keeps rising as it spreads to 26 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), raising fears among citizens.
This is just as experts have called for increased efforts by all stakeholders towards curbing the situation.
The federal government has recorded over 473 suspected cases and 172 confirmed cases of the disease from January to August, this year.
An analysis of situation reports from the nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows that the number of cases recorded in the country so far this year is higher than those recorded each in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. In the whole of 2017, there were 88 confirmed cases, 49 in 2018, 47 in 2019, 8 in 2020 and 34 in 2021.
Since the beginning of this year, several countries have also witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox, prompting the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, to, July 23, declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern.
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The deadly disease has been spreading across states and the FCT over the last few months.
NCDC disclosed that the states that have recorded monkeypox cases since the beginning of the year are Lagos (20), Ondo (16), Adamawa (13), Rivers (13), Delta (12), Bayelsa (12), Edo (9), Nasarawa (9), Anambra (7), Imo (7), Plateau (6), Taraba (5).
Others are Kwara (5), Kano (5), Abia (4), Cross River (3), Borno (3), Oyo (3), Gombe (3), Katsina (2), Kogi (2), Ogun (2), Niger (1), Bauchi (1), Akwa Ibom (1) and Ebonyi (1) as well as FCT (7).
