Nigeria’s government has confirmed six additional cases of Monkeypoll, the Premium Times reports.
A statement from the country’s Ministry of Health said on Friday that the cases are among those sent to the World Health Organisation’s laboratory in Dakar, Senegal.
The Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, said two cases each were confirmed in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, one each in Enugu State and the Abuja, the report said.
So far nine cases have been reported and confirmed in the country, with the first cases confirmed on 16 October.
According to Ehanire no fatality has been recorded from the outbreak.
According to the report, 94 suspected cases have been reported from 11 states, namely Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory.
The new patients are receiving medical care as investigations are on-going to establish whether the disease spread from Bayelsa, where the outbreak started.
According to WHO, Monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs primarily in remote parts of Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
