Monkeypox Outbreak 2024 Nigeria. On wednesday, the un agency declared a global health emergency in response to a severe outbreak of the viral disease in the democratic republic of congo (drc), which has. Levels of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in the democratic republic of congo have reached more than 14,000 reported cases and 511 deaths, and it has spread to.
Evidence of monkeypox virus infection has been found in animals including squirrels, gambian pouched rats, dormice, different species of monkeys and others. On 26 september 2017, who was alerted to a suspected outbreak of monkeypox in yenagoa local government area (lga) in bayelsa state, nigeria.