Tag: Monkeypox
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NCDC confirms 220 cases of Monkeypox, four deaths
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, said the Monkeypox cases in the country had risen to 220. Dr. Adetifa made this known at the ministerial press briefing on COVID-19 and developments in the health sector held in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the confirmed cases were recorded from…
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US CDC sends delegation to Nigeria over global security
The United States Government, through its Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a delegation to Nigeria to learn capacity building for global health security, disease detection, preparedness and response. The Director of Global Health Advocacy, United Nations Foundation, Mr. Brian Massa, who led the delegation to the National Reference Laboratory of the Nigeria…
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13 cases of monkeypox confirmed in Bayelsa
The Bayelsa State Government has informed the public that 13 persons have tested positive for monkeypox in the state. The Director of Public Health in the state Ministry of Health, Dr. Jones Stow, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the confirmed cases were among 50 samples that were sent for laboratory tests. He also said…
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Ebonyi records monkeypox case, Osun begins sensitisation
The first case of Monkeypox has been recorded in Ebonyi State. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezurike, disclosed this during a briefing in Abakaliki, on Monday. He said the virus was recorded at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, on August 10, 2022. The commissioner said, “A 32-year-old male farmer, who…
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Monkeypox: WHO Names Variants as Clades I, IIa & IIb
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced new names for the variants of the monkeypox virus, resolving to name the clades using Roman numerals – Clades I, IIa and IIb. According to WHO, this step is taken in a bid to avoid causing any “cultural or social offence.” Experts in pox virology, evolutionary biology, and…
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Nigeria records 24 new cases of monkeypox in 7 days
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 24 additional monkeypox cases in seven days from across 12 states in the country. The NCDC reported the cases via its official website. It stated that a total of 157 positive infections of monkeypox were confirmed between January 1 and July 31. The News Agency of…
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WHO declares Monkeypox Global Emergency
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency. The latest development, The Telegraph UK reports, supersedes the earlier decision of the global health panel that considered the impact of the virus not significant enough to be so declared. But on Saturday, the WHO’s Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, overruled the global…
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W.H.O Set To Declare Monkeypox A Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization will decide on Thursday whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, stirring criticism from leading African scientists who say it has been a crisis in their region for years. The deliberations and scrutiny of the WHO’s response to the outbreak follows concerns over how the United Nations agency and governments…
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Canada confirms 15 cases of monkeypox
Health authorities in Canada said Tuesday they had identified 10 new cases of monkeypox in Quebec, bringing the total number to 15, with additional cases expected in other provinces. Monkeypox, detected in recent weeks in Europe and North America, is a rare disease originating in Africa which usually clears up on its own. “We expect…
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Biden Raises the Alarm about Monkeypox
Before departing South Korea yesterday, President Joe Biden warned that monkeypox, a viral infection spreading around the world, was something “that everybody should be concerned about.” He added that continued transmission would be “consequential.” “They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about,” Mr. Biden…