Monkeypox in Nigeria

Disease| Monkeypox
Virus strain| Monkeypox virus
First reported| 1971

In 2017, monkeypox reemerged in humans in Nigeria after 39 years.[1] By the end of 2017, there were at least 115 confirmed cases.[2]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 2017 outbreak
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Monkeypox in 1971

When the first cases of human monkeypox were identified in the DRC, Liberia and Sierre Leone in 1970, there were no detected cases in Nigeria, and surveillance of several non-human primates in Nigeria did not identify any monkeypox virus.[3] Two cases of monkeypox were first identified in Nigeria in 1971.[4] The first case was a four year old female, whose rash began on 9 April.[5]

## 2017 outbreak

In 2017, monkeypox reemerged in humans in Nigeria after 39-years.[1][6]

The first exportations of monkeypox out of Africa via affected humans occurred in September 2018, when three unrelated affected people from Nigeria travelled to the UK and Israel.[7]

In 2021, cases of monkeypox were reported in Delta, Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Federal Capital Territory, Niger, and Ogun.[8]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yinka-Ogunleye, Adesola; Aruna, Olusola; Dalhat, Mahmood; Ogoina, Dimie; McCollum, Andrea; Disu, Yahyah; Mamadu, Ibrahim; Akinpelu, Afolabi et al. (August 2019). "Outbreak of human monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017-18: a clinical and epidemiological report". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases 19 (8): 872–879. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30294-4. ISSN 1474-4457. PMID 31285143.
2. ↑ Sutcliffe, Catherine G.; Rimone, Anne W.; Moss, William J. (2020). "32.2. Poxviruses". in Ryan, Edward T.; Hill, David R.; Solomon, Tom et al. (in en). Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book (Tenth ed.). Edinburgh: Elsevier. pp. 272–277. ISBN 978-0-323-55512-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=y8SODwAAQBAJ&dq=monkeypox+nigeria&pg=PA272.
3. ↑ Cho, C. T.; Wenner, H. A. (March 1973). "Monkeypox virus". Bacteriological Reviews 37 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1128/br.37.1.1-18.1973. ISSN 0005-3678. PMID 4349404.
4. ↑ "Human monkeypox, 1970-79". Bull World Health Organ 58 (2): 165–182. 1980. PMID 6249508.
5. ↑ Arita, I; Henderson, DA (1976). "Monkeypox and whitepox viruses in West and Central Africa.". Bulletin of the World Health Organization 53 (4): 347–53. PMID 186209.
6. ↑ Phoobane, Paulina; Masinde, Muthoni; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe (8 February 2022). "Predicting Infectious Diseases: A Bibliometric Review on Africa". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (3): 1893. doi:10.3390/ijerph19031893. ISSN 1660-4601. PMID 35162917.
7. ↑ Mauldin, Matthew R.; McCollum, Andrea M.; Nakazawa, Yoshinori J.; Mandra, Anna; Whitehouse, Erin R.; Davidson, Whitni; Zhao, Hui; Gao, Jinxin et al. (19 April 2022). "Exportation of Monkeypox Virus From the African Continent". The Journal of Infectious Diseases 225 (8): 1367–1376. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaa559. ISSN 1537-6613. PMID 2880628.
8. ↑ "Monkeypox in Nigeria - Watch - Level 1, Practice Usual Precautions - Travel Health Notices | Travelers' Health | CDC". https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/watch/monkeypox-nigeria.

## External links

* An Update of Monkeypox Outbreak in Nigeria. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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