Tag: Monkey pox

WHO declares monkey pox an international public health emergency

Aminu Imam

The World Health Organisation, (WHO), yesterday declared monkey pox a public health emergency of international concern, a designation reserved for the most serious global disease outbreaks. That puts monkey pox on the same list as six other outbreaks with the same WHO label since 2007: Covid-19, Zika, H1N1 flu, polio and Ebola, which has been designated an emergency twice. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency’s emergency committee. It was the first…

Read More

479 killed, as cholera spreads to 18 States – NCDC

Aminu Imam

…Records 62.5 % increase in monkeypox cases A total of 479 people have been killed in the current outbreak of Cholera in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), which disclosed this in its latest situation report. said since the beginning of this year, a total of 19,305 suspected cases have been recorded and that the disease has spread to 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The States were listed as Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kogi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, and Kaduna. Others are Plateau, Kebbi,…

Read More

NCDC records 59 suspected monkeypox cases in Nigeria

Aminu Imam

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), Chile Ihekweazu, says 59 suspected cases of monkeypox, with 15 cases already confirmed, have been registered in the country. Ihekweazu stated this yesterday in Abuja, while reacting to the case of a Dallas, Texas resident who tested positive for the disease after travelling from Nigeria. Monkeypox, which is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, is a rare but potentially deadly viral infection that begins with flu-like symptoms and progresses to a rash on the face and body. The…

Read More