The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 241 cases of monkeypox.
According to the NCDC’s situation report on the disease for week 33, the confirmed cases were reported from 30 states in the country.
There are no fewer than 604 suspected cases of the infection.
Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease (i.e. an infection transmitted from animals to humans) that occurs sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
On the other hand, NCDC said the number of confirmed cases of Lassa fever in the country has increased to 909 in week 35 of 2022.
The confirmed cases for week 35 is higher than the confirmed cases recorded in the same period in 2021 by 544.
It also showed that there were 6,547 suspected cases of the disease in the country.
Lassa fever is an animal-borne, or zoonotic, acute viral illness spread by the common African rat. It is endemic in parts of West Africa including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.
