THE director-general, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, says although sexual contact is a possible means by which individuals can contract monkeypox, the disease is yet to be confirmed as a sexually transmitted infection. Meanwhile, Professor Oyewale Tomori said Nigeria needs to sequence all monkeypox cases in Nigeria to better understand the disease in the country and to influence subsequent steps the government needs to take. And the sequencing shows that the origin is from Nigeria but the spread is not by Nigerians but their people over there. So, something must have happened with the current monkeypox virus. So, we need to quickly sequence the cases we had in Nigeria.”

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 26, 2022 07:29 UTC