The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) says Rivers State recorded one case of monkeypox between July 25th to 31st July 2022.
Delta, Bayelsa, and Akwa Ibom among others were among the states named for cases of infections.
The commission in its latest monkeypox situation report for week 30 on its official Twitter handle confirmed 157 cases of the disease across 26 states in the country.
The agency said from January 1 to July 31, 2022, four deaths were recorded in 4 states – Delta (1), Lagos (1), Ondo (1), and Akwa Ibom (1).
The report also showed that there were at least 413 suspected cases of the disease in the country.
According to the report, “There were fifty-six (56) new suspected cases reported in Epi week 30, 2022 (25th to 31st July 2022) from nineteen (19) states – Ondo (13), Plateau (8), Lagos (6), Adamawa (4), Abia (3), Borno (3), Delta (2), Kano (3), Anambra (2), Bayelsa (2) , Kwara (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Gombe (1), Imo (1), Nasarawa (1), Osun (1), Oyo (1), Rivers (1) and Taraba (1).”
Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans that occur sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and West Africa near tropical rainforests.
