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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Monkeypox Hits Bayelsa + Docs And Others Quarantined.

Fear has gripped the residents of Bayelsa State as a deadly viral epidemic known as “monkeypox” has broken out in the state.




According to the World Health Organisation, monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs primarily in remote parts of Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.

“The monkeypox virus can cause a fatal illness in humans and, although it is similar to human smallpox which has been eradicated, it is much milder,” WHO says.

It was authoritatively learnt that a medical doctor and 10 persons who came down with the monkeypox had been quarantined in an isolation centre at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

The isolation centre was reportedly created by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and the epidemiological team of the state’s Ministry of Health to control the spread of the virus.

The NCDC and the epidemiological team were said to be tracking 49 other persons who were said to have come in contact with persons who were already infected.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, confirmed the development, saying that samples of the virus had been sent to the World Health Organisation laboratory in Dakar, Senegal, for confirmation.

He described monkeypox as a viral illness caused by a group of viruses that include chicken pox and smallpox, adding that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and subsequent outbreaks in West African region.

The commissioner explained that the virus has the Central African and the West African types, saying that the the West African type is milder and has no records of mortality.

edited from Punch

5 comments:

  1. What will someone not hear?
    Which one is monkeypox again?
    Wow!

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  2. Monkey eaters make una continue...

    All these Riverine/mangrove dwellers too like bush meat.May God save them.

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  3. Someone ate monkey in the name of bushmeat!
    How can u eat a monkey? Something close to...a homo sapien....oh shucks!

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  4. May this spread not locate your children lord

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  5. pheeeew!!! thank God its been contained. i was about to relocate to my abode and leave naija for una, tho the naija sef is a higher version of hell.

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