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Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by BeeBeeOoh(m): 8:46pm On Nov 17, 2021
A Maryland resident in the United States, who just travelled from Nigeria, has tested positive for the rare virus monkeypox.

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) said the unidentified patient, has not been hospitalised.

He is said to be currently recovering in isolation with mild symptoms, reports Mail Online.

No details are available regarding the resident’s age, sex, where he or she lives, and where he or she traveled to in Nigeria.

At the moment, health officials said that the general public does not need to take any special precautions.

‘Public health authorities have identified and continue to follow up with those who may have been in contact with the diagnosed individual,’ Dr Jinlene Chan, deputy secretary for public health at MDH, said in a statement.

‘Our response in close coordination with (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) officials demonstrates the importance of maintaining a strong public health infrastructure.’

The CDC released a media statement revealing its scientists confirmed on Tuesday that the traveler had a case of monkeypox.

What’s more, the strain that the patient contracted matches the strain that has been re-emerging in Nigeria since 2017.

Currently, CDC is working with the airline and health officials to contact passengers who were on the same flight as the patient and may have come into contact with him or her.

Other cases of monkeypox have been detected recently including in a Texas man in July.

The Texas man also just returned from Nigeria.
In June, two persons in Wales also came down with the virus in the northern part of the country.

Monkeypox was discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in crab-eating macaque monkeys kept for research.

The first-ever human case was detected in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since spreading to many central and western African nations.

It is believed that the virus transmits from animals to humans when the primate bites or scratches a person.

It can also spread person-to-person by respiratory droplets in the air – similar to the way humans spread COVID-19 to each other.

People with more serious cases of the virus will often develop skin lesions, among other symptoms such as rash and fever, and it kills about one percent of those infected.

The disease had largely vanished, until a 2003 flare-up in the U.S. saw the virus return among humans.

There are no specific treatments or vaccines available for monkeypox, though the smallpox vaccine is believed to have helped make it a non-problem in humans for many years.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/11/17/traveller-from-nigeria-hits-america-with-monkeypox-cdc-on-alert/?amp=1

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Hadone(m): 8:54pm On Nov 17, 2021
Joke

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by daddytime(m): 9:21pm On Nov 17, 2021
Another wahala

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Candidlady: 9:21pm On Nov 17, 2021
God protect our loved ones


please disclose the persons name, iwanna confirm something


Gender checked


Name processing


Tribe loading

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Golan007: 9:36pm On Nov 17, 2021
Malory:
Must be from the west side of Nigeria

In 2018, a total of 76 cases have been reported, 37 are confirmed, one probable and two deaths. These cases were reported in 14 states and one territory (Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau and Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)).

Safe to say it is concentrated in SS/SE.

Even as one from SS, I see no reason to hide this.

It is mostly via zoonotic transmission.

Wacking any animal you come across, especially when not adequately cooked has consequences.

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by slimjohn2k5: 9:40pm On Nov 17, 2021
Name, sex hidden but nationality is not. I do not believe this story

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by 69Ansour69: 4:55am On Nov 18, 2021
Nah Monkey pox I wan dey contract now cool
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by funkybroyouknow: 4:56am On Nov 18, 2021
pastor righteousness we need you in this early morning abeg

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by inoki247: 4:56am On Nov 18, 2021
Again....


Wahala no too much laik diz...
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by tiswell(m): 4:58am On Nov 18, 2021
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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Alf137: 4:58am On Nov 18, 2021
Problem, another problem cool
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by dettolgel: 5:00am On Nov 18, 2021
Not surprised when you guys eat anything and everything in the name of bush meat.

If snakes have such deadly and infectious disease by now half of this country would have caught it. grin

Stop eating anything you guys lay hands on you won't listen.

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Le2money(m): 5:02am On Nov 18, 2021
This country called Congo get name for every bad things oo.....na there HIV and Monkey Pox came from. Nawa oo


BeeBeeOoh:


https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/11/17/traveller-from-nigeria-hits-america-with-monkeypox-cdc-on-alert/?amp=1

Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Oduduwa707: 5:03am On Nov 18, 2021
sad
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by greenie77: 5:03am On Nov 18, 2021
slimjohn2k5:
Name, sex hidden but nationality is not. I do not believe this story

Nationality was not stated but stated the person a resident of Maryland (US) travelled from Nigeria.

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Success77x: 5:08am On Nov 18, 2021
China on the beat.
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Kharol1234: 5:09am On Nov 18, 2021
69Ansour69:
Nah Monkey pox I wan dey contract now cool
Make I no talk Stein they my mouth
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Nahunger(m): 5:20am On Nov 18, 2021
Lols...
NA H.U.N.G.E.R MAKE AM EAT MONKEY CON CATCH MONKEY POX grin grin grin
May be na TIV man lol or BMC
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by baby124: 5:28am On Nov 18, 2021
Le2money:
This country called Congo get name for every bad things oo.....na there HIV and Monkey Pox came from. Nawa oo


HIV came from UK. From a gay orgy house. Patient 0 was identified there.
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Authoreety: 5:28am On Nov 18, 2021
All those
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by mimicherry: 5:33am On Nov 18, 2021
I really doubt this story

Monkey pox

Unless they are almanjiris
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by dkdmy: 5:37am On Nov 18, 2021
Lies! How are they able to identify and test such person @ d airport? Unless it was visible all over his body! Then no mention of the people he/she flew in with

Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by 9jakool: 6:05am On Nov 18, 2021
That person probably got infected from coming into contact with an infected person or handling bushmeat since it's a zoonotic disease.
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by InoGetJoy: 6:14am On Nov 18, 2021
Where's that nairalander whose brother is always killing animals in the bush, I hope he sees this and refrains from his murderous rampage

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Badonasty(m): 6:40am On Nov 18, 2021
Why is it that most diseases originate in the DRC
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by APCNig: 6:40am On Nov 18, 2021
Bush meat eaters, una dey hear so? All of una wey dey eat rats, lizards, e.t.c., una go kill una self

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Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by Golan007: 7:31am On Nov 18, 2021
NoFucksToGive:
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Listen if you don't want generational curses to trouble your life , don't you ever mention Edo state with your unbrushed teeth ever again. All these Yoruba always impersonating other tribes to talk rubbish!!
You didn't see in the report where it mentioned Lagos and Ondo last year ?

Nonsense

You are badly trained.
Re: Monkey Pox: Traveller From Nigeria To The US Tests Positive, CDC On Alert by hotwax: 7:32am On Nov 18, 2021
Hope they are not starting another pandemic and pinning it on Nigeria

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