The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control through its website said it has enough capacity to diagnose and respond to cases of Monkeypox across the country with the availability of The National Reference Laboratory in Abuja.
Research has it that Monkeypox, is a rare disease that is caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae.
The disease, which is endemic to West and Central African countries, has started to surface in countries in Europe.
While Nigeria’s disease control centre noted that only 46 suspected cases had been reported with 15 confirmed so far, countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Italy and Canada have begun to report cases.
The NCDC however reassure Nigerians of its capacity to effectively diagnose and respond to cases of Monkeypox.
