Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC said the country recorded six cases and one death on Monkeypox in May.
The centre said Nigeria’s risk of exposure to the Monkeypox virus was high based on the recent risk assessment it conducted.
NCDC in its latest epidemiological summary on Monkeypox also noted that since January 2022, Nigeria had continued to report sporadic cases of the disease and it was reported that the disease is an uncommon disease caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family.
According to World Health Organization, the disease is only seen in West and Central African countries.
It stated that one death was reported in a 40 year-old patient who had underlying co-morbidity and was on immuno-suppressive medications.
NCDC said among the 21 cases reported in 2022 so far, there had been no evidence of any new or unusual transmission of the virus, nor changes in its clinical manifestation documented including symptoms, profile and virulence.
