The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 10 additional monkey pox cases in the last seven days in the country. The NCDC disclosed this via its official website, in its latest monkey pox situation report released on Friday, DailyTimes gathered. NAN reports that as global monkey pox cases continue to rise, public-health officials […]
A Nigerian guy Ese took to Facebook to share photos of a monkey he killed that looks like a human being and wrote…. ‘I just killed this monkey, it looks like human‘. The photos have been trending with many criticising him for killing the monkey.See how people reacted below
There is no outbreak of monkey pox in Kwara state, the state government has said. The state Commissioner for Health, Hon Atolagbe Alege, told newsmen in Ilorin the state capital on Monday that there was no trace of the disease in any part of the state. He said that the outcome of investigation by state […]
The suspected victim of monkey pox in Gboko has been moved to the Benue State Teaching Hospital (BSUTH). The woman identified as Wuese Alough disclosed that she must have contacted the disease from her boyfriend who visited her from Enugu a few weeks ago. Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Cecelia Ojabo, who spoke […]
The Federal Ministry of health has announced laboratory confirmation of six additional cases among the earlier reported suspected cases of Monkeypox virus. Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations in the ministry, made this known in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. Akinola said two cases were confirmed each in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom […]
* Wants Nigerians to avoid self-medication. Says suspected case should be reported to nearest hospital Ibeneme Ebelechukwu, Abuja. The federal government Monday said it has received a laboratory confirmation of three cases of Monkey Pox virus from the World Health Organization (WHO) regional laboratory in Senegal out of the 17 suspected cases reported from Yenagoa […]
Since September 22, when it was discovered that a rare disease known as Monkey Pox has shown its ugly head in Nigeria, the social media and even the main stream media has been abuzz with frightening photographs of victims. With large pox all over their body, it leaves many Nigerians wondering whether, indeed, the end […]
… Govt suspends all health activities in schools Akam James, Yenagoa There was panic Friday, October 13 in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital following the panic withdrawal of school pupils by their parents and guardians from schools in the state over alleged killer monkey pox vaccination exercise. Two students were reported to have been run […]
Val Okara, Owerri & John Ndu, Awka Following the rumour of soldiers of the Nigerian Army injecting Monkey Pox virus on school pupils in Imo State on Wednesday, all the private schools remained under lock and key. Our correspondent who went round the Owerri, the state capital, observed that public schools recorded low turnout of […]
….Says no death recorded Recently, fear griped residents of Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, following the outbreak of the viral epidemic, Monkey Pox, in the state, with report that 10 persons had already been infected while authorities in the state said they were tracking 49 persons alleged to have come in contact with the […]
Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Following the outbreak of Monkey Pox in neighbouring states and the suspected cases in the state, the Rivers State government has placed its personnel under the ministry of health on red alert to prevent the spread of the strange ailment in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Princewill Chike, said […]
The Federal Government has asked Nigerians not to eat monkeys, bush meat and dead animals. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said this in a statement signed by the Director, Media and Public Relations at the ministry, Mrs. Boade Akinola, on Thursday. The statement read in part, “He said that the virus was mild […]
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