Monkeypox: NCDC registers 59 suspected cases, confirms 15
Monkeypox victim THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has registered 59 suspected cases of monkeypox with 15 confirmed, its Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Tuesday, in Abuja. Ihekweazu was reacting to the Dallas, Texas resident who recently returned from Nigeria and tested positive to the disease. It was the first confirmed case of the virus in the United States since 2003, with health officials saying that the public should not be concerned. Laboratory tests confirmed that the patient was infected with a strain of the virus mainly seen in West Africa, which included Nigeria. “While rare, this case is not a reason for alarm and we do not expect any threat to the general public,” Dallas County Judge, Clay Jenkins, said in a statement by Dallas County’s health department. With passengers wearing masks on the flight and in the airport, the health department said the risk of spreading monkeypox via respiratory droplets to others in the planes and i...