ANAEDOONLINE.NG, reported that there are now 789 confirmed cases of mpox in Nigeria.
There have been eight reported deaths as a result of the illness.
According to the World Health Organization’s mpox situation report, Nigeria has the greatest number of mpox cases and fatalities in the continent of Africa.
As of February 16, 110 nations across all six WHO regions had reported a combined 85,860 confirmed cases and 93 fatalities.
The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, concurred with the committee’s recommendation that the multi-country mpox outbreak continues to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern when the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met for the fourth time on February 9 to discuss the outbreak.
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The Emergency Committee acknowledged the progress made globally and raised concerns over ongoing transmission in some countries, as well as possible under-detection and under-reporting in others, especially where there was animal-to-human transmission before.
The mpox African region report showed that Benin recorded three cases, Cameroon has 18 cases and three deaths; the Central African Republic reported 22 cases, Congo -five; the Democratic Republic of the Congo -370; Ghana – 121 and four deaths; Liberia -seven; Mozambique -pone and one death; and South Africa -five.
The WHO said mpox continued to circulate in animal hosts with occasional spillover to humans, not only causing suffering in the local population but also enabling the exportation of the virus to other areas or countries. Exportation from enzootic countries may occur through the international trade of susceptible animals or international travel of persons carrying the virus.
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The UN agency advised countries to integrate mpox prevention, preparedness, and response within programmes and services for sexual health, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections, and to continue to strengthen research through a One Health approach, in coordination with partner agencies.
Experts say intervention strategies to mitigate the risk of zoonotic spillover of mpox are needed to prevent future local and global outbreaks.
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