Monkey Pox: Fill health declaration form, FG orders visitors
THE Federal Government has directed that all travellers to Nigeria must fill health declaration form to avoid the spread of infectious diseases. The Federal Ministry of Health made this know on its official website healthapp.ncdc.gov.ng/ Two years after a global outbreak, fears are rife that a new strain of monkeypox — identified in DR Congo and now also in several neighbouring countries could further spread. Deadlier and more transmissible than previous forms, the mpox strain surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since September, known as the Clade Ib subclade, is spread person-to-person. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday it was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether to declare an international emergency, as it did during the global monkeypox outbreak in 2022. The disease causes skin rashes across the whole body, unlike other strains where lesions and rashes are usually limited to the mouth, face and genitals. The African Union...