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What To Know About The Monkeypox Outbreak DRC
Since early May 2022, countries in Africa have reported confirmed cases of Monkeypox and in no time, the virus had moved out of the continent to America. On October 10, America’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 26,577 cases of monkeypox had been identified in the U.S. The virus seemed to have…
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What To Know About Cases Of Monkey Pox In Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recently disclosed a rise in cases of Monkeypox shortly after the UK Health Security Agency diagnosed a patient believed to have contracted the infection from Nigeria. According to the report, the NCDC has confirmed a total of 46 suspected cases and 15 confirmed cases of monkeypox between January…
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Endemic: Wild Polio Resurfaces In Malawi After Five Years
Malawi has recorded an outbreak of the Wild Poliovirus in the country’s capital Lilongwe after a three-year-old girl was reported to have developed the virus investigated to be similar to a strain circulating in Pakistan. The highly infectious wild poliovirus, a major cause of total paralysis in children was last detected in Nigeria’s Borno State…