Nigeria Records 94 Confirmed Mpox Cases In 25 States, FCT

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) on Tuesday disclosed that 25 states and the FCT have recorded at least one confirmed case of Mpox across 63 local government areas in 2024.

According to the report obtained from the NCDC on Tuesday, from January 1 to October 6, 2024, 1297 suspected cases were recorded, with 94 confirmed.

In epidemiology week 40 of 2024, 47 new suspected cases were reported, compared to 67 in the previous week. It also noted that down from 10 in week 39, six cases were confirmed in week 40.

The report also highlighted that since 2017, Nigeria has recorded 5,144 suspected Mpox cases and 1,180 confirmed cases across 35 states and the FCT, which resulted in 17 deaths. Approximately 70 per cent of the confirmed cases were males.

It also stated that “the National Mpox multi-sectoral & multi-partner Emergency Operation Centre continues to coordinate the response.” It further clarified that week 39 had a backlog of 13 reported cases (four confirmed cases).

The states with confirmed cases are Cross-River (11); Lagos (10); Plateau (eight); Enugu (eight); Akwa-Ibom (eight); Delta (six); Bayelsa (six); FCT (five); Imo (four); Benue (four); Rivers (three); Abia (three).

Others are Osun (two); Ogun (two); Edo (two); Anambra (two); Zamfara (one); Oyo (one); Niger (one); Nasarawa (one); Kebbi (one); Katsina (one); Kaduna (one); Gombe (one); Ebonyi (one); and Adamawa (one).

However, Ogun leads with the number of suspected cases with 222; followed by Lagos (153); Bayelsa (125); Cross River (84); Akwa Ibom (65); Ekiti (63); Enugu (59); Osun (56); Ondo (41); Delta (38); Imo (36); Abia (34); Plateau (34); FCT (28); Rivers (27); Anambra (24); Adamawa (22); Benue (21).

Other states with suspected cases are Kebbi (19); Edo (17); Oyo (16); Gombe (16); Nasarawa (14); Ebonyi (11); Kaduna (10); Kogi (nine); Zamfara (nine); Katsina (nine); Taraba (eight); Kwara (six); Bauchi (six); Kano (five); Jigawa (four); Sokoto (three); Yobe (one); Borno (one); and Niger (one).

The age distribution of cumulative number of confirmed cases in 2024 showed that ages 0-10 recorded 24 cases; ages 11-20 recorded 15 cases; ages 21-30 recorded 25; ages 31-40 recorded 14 cases; ages 41-50 recorded 12 cases; ages 50 and above recorded four cases.