The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has issued a red alert for monkeypox.
This comes after NCDC Director-General Ifedayo Adetifa revealed that the health agency has seen an increase in monkeypox cases in the country.
Adetifa, speaking at a virtual media dialogue on monkeypox on Tuesday, June 28, warned that if the current trend continues, Nigeria could match or exceed the peak number of cases seen in 2017, when monkeypox re-emerged.
He also revealed that an unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox had affected several countries since January 1, resulting in over 3,000 laboratory-confirmed cases and one death from the virus as of June 22.
The NCDC DG also said the prevailing media perception and misinformation on monkeypox had fuelled false narratives about the virus, adding that the potential risk of discrimination and stigmatisation from this requires urgent social and behavior change intervention.
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