Cross River epidemiologist confirms two new cases of mpox
The Cross River epidemiologist, Inyang Ekpenyong, has confirmed two new cases of mpox in Calabar Municipality Local Government Area.
Ms Ekpenyong, in a statement in Calabar on Saturday, said a case management team had been informed for the urgent evacuation of the two cases to an isolation centre.
The state reported a case in Okoshe, Obudu Local Government Area earlier. The National Reference Laboratory in Abuja confirmed the case.
Ms Ekpenyong said, “The state/LGA Rapid Response Team (RRT) have commenced contact tracing, listing and monitoring.
“We also use this opportunity to appeal for financial resources to urgently carry out the needed response activities.”
Mpox is a rare disease caused by the mpox virus, which usually affects rodents such as rats or mice or non-human primates such as monkeys.
The disease, first discovered in Central Africa, is spread mainly through close contact and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that a person with mpox has touched.
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