•Mpox Africa is confronting multiple high-burden health emergencies, including widespread cholera outbreaks, rising Mpox cases and active viral haemorrhagic fever events. These emergencies, however, are occurring as the continent is receiving major global financing to strengthen pandemic preparedness, reports Vanguard. Prof. Yap Boum, Incident...
Mpox is an infectious disease that can give you headache, back pain, low energy, painful rash, and fever. It can be transmitted through contaminated materials, infected animals, and humans, reports Nigerian Tribune. History The first case of mpox was in 1970. It happened to a nine-month-old baby in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, ...
•Diphtheria The federal government has issued an alert warning Nigerians of the outbreak of infectious diseases across the country. Issuing the warning today via its website, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) confirmed the widespread outbreak of cholera, dengue fever, Mpox, diphtheria, and yellow fever. The public he...
•Mpox The Mpox situation report obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said Mpox has spread to 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory across 63 local government areas in the country. According to the report, 94 confirmed cases have been reported out of the 1,297 suspected cases recorded so far from […]...
•Mpox Ghana has recorded its first confirmed case of Mpox in 2024, health authorities said yesterday, as the virus continues to spread in Africa. The patient, a young boy from the Western North Region -– about 475 kilometres (295.1 miles) from the capital Accra — showed symptoms of the virus including a rash, fever, and […]
•Mpox The World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the first time prequalified an Mpox vaccine. •Mpox vaccine The announcement came on the heels of the arrival of the first MVA-BN vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the epidemic. DRC has recorded nearly 22,000 cases and 716 deaths linked to the virus […]
•Mpox The Akwa Ibom State Government says it has recorded five cases of Mpox (formerly known as Monkey Pox) in the state. The disease surveillance and notification officer of the Ministry of Health, Mr Samuel Etuk, who said the cases were reported in some local government areas, first confirmed four cases, before an additional case. […]...
The current Mpox outbreak in Nigeria has spread to 30 local government areas in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with 40 confirmed cases so far. A report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) also showed that there are so far a total of 802 suspected cases in 33 […]
•Mpox The Osun State Government has announced the confirmation of a monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak in the Ilesa-West local government area of the state. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Barrister Jola Akintola, in a statement released through the Ministry of Information bulletin today. While confirming the outbreak, Akintola reass...
•Mpox In its desperate bid to contain the spread of Mpox in the country, the federal government has directed states to set up their various emergency preparedness and response teams, capabilities, and action plans with the support of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This comes as the number of confirmed cases has risen […...
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