Monkeypox Outbreak in Nigeria: Situation Report #9 (23 November 2017)

Highlights

• The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) continued to coordinate the response through its activated Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
• Fifty-six (56) confirmed cases recorded since the onset of the outbreak
• Three (3) new States (Imo, Katsina and Nasarawa) recorded confirmed cases in the reporting week
• Thirteen (13) new suspected cases reported in the reporting week
• NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja continued laboratory diagnosis of monkeypox with improved turn-around time
• There has been a decline in the number of new suspected cases reported over the last four weeks
• Since the onset of the outbreak, a total of 155 cases (suspected and confirmed) have been recorded from 21 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
• No death attributable to monkeypox has been recorded so far
• Epidemiologist deployed to five (5) more States