The group cautions Nigeria about its response to the Mpox virus.
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The committee considered the upsurge of Mpox cases to be a PHEIC, with the potential to spread further across countries in Africa and possibly outside the continent.of monkeypox … with two deaths in a country of 200 million people,” Mr Williams, a director at the Elite Medical Team, said. “So, why are we out here now choosing another route that is going to cost us a whole lot more in a country that is bleeding for finance?”
She said before introducing vaccine treatment, Mpox was being tackled locally through public awareness, avoiding close contact with infected people or contaminated materials, and using gloves and other personal protective clothing while caring for the sick.She added that of the two variants of clade I and II of Mpox, only the clade I virus is spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She said the clade II variant is mostly found in West Africa.
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