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Monkeypox:  Nigeria Records 110 Cases In 12  States

by Patience Ivie Ihejirika
3 years ago
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country has recorded 110 suspected cases of Monkeypox across 12 States with one death in 2022.

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NCDC, however, said that only 31 of the 110 suspected cases were confirmed.

The Centre, in its epidemiological report for week 22 (Epi-week 22) said: “From January 1st to 5th June 2022, there have been 110 suspected cases in total and 31 confirmed cases from twelve (12) states – Adamawa (5), Lagos (6), River (3), Cross River (2), FCT (2), Kano (2), Delta (2), Bayelsa (2), Edo (2), Imo (2), Plateau (2), and Ondo (1).

“One death was recorded in a 40-year-old man with co-morbidity that was receiving immunosuppressive drugs

“There were ten (10) new positive cases in Epi week 22, 2022 from six (6) states – Edo (2), Rivers (2), Plateau (2), Lagos (2), Ondo (1) and Imo (1).”

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LEADERSHIP recalls that Nigeria detected its index case of Monkeypox on September 22, 2017.

Meanwhile, according to NCDC, there were 88 confirmed cases of Monkeypox in 2017, 49 confirmed cases in 2018, 47 confirmed cases in 2019, eight confirmed cases in 2020 and 34 confirmed cases in 2022.

In total, the confirmed cases from September 2017 to June 5, 2022 were 257 while the total suspected cases stand at 622.

“From September 2017 to 5th June 2022, a total of 622 suspected cases have been reported from 33 states in the country with nine deaths recorded in six states.

“Of the reported cases, 257 (41.3%) have been confirmed in 23 states – Rivers (55), Bayelsa (45), Lagos (36), Delta (31), Cross River (16), Edo (12), Imo (10), Akwa Ibom (7), Oyo (6), FCT (8), Plateau (5), Adamawa (5), Enugu (4), Abia (3), Nasarawa (2), Benue (2), Anambra (2), Ekiti (2), Kano (2), Ebonyi (1), Niger (1), Ogun (1) and Ondo (1).

“In addition, from September 2017 to June 5th, 2022, a total of nine (9) deaths have been recorded (CFR= 3.5%) in six states – Lagos (3), Edo (2), Imo (1), Cross River (1), FCT (1) and Rivers (1),” the Centre explained.

Noting that Nigeria has continue to report sporadic cases of monkeypox (MPX) since 2017, NCDC said on May 26th 2022, a monkeypox National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was activated in response to the risk assessment conducted, which put Nigeria at high risk for a Monkeypox outbreak.

NCDC added that yhe essence of the activation was to improve the coordination of related preparedness/response activities across the country.

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