Abstract
In Nigeria, before 2017 the most recent case of human monkeypox had been reported in 1978. By mid-November 2017, a large outbreak caused by the West African clade resulted in 146 suspected cases and 42 laboratory-confirmed cases from 14 states. Although the source is unknown, multiple sources are suspected.
Keywords: Human monkeypox; Nigeria; disease; reemergence; viruses; zoonoses.
MeSH terms
- Animals
- Child
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging / diagnosis
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging / virology*
- Disease Outbreaks*
- Exanthema / pathology
- Exanthema / virology
- Humans
- Male
- Monkeypox virus* / classification
- Monkeypox virus* / genetics
- Mpox (monkeypox) / epidemiology*
- Mpox (monkeypox) / virology*
- Nigeria / epidemiology
- Population Surveillance
- Zoonoses*