Mpox in Nigeria

Two cases of human mpox infections were identified in Nigeria in 1971.

[2] When the first cases of human mpox were identified in the DRC, Liberia and Sierre Leone in 1970, there were no detected cases in Nigeria, and surveillance of several non-human primates in Nigeria did not identify any monkeypox virus.

[4] The first case was a four-year-old female, whose rash began on 9 April.

[7] In May 2019, a 38-year-old man who travelled from Nigeria was hospitalised in an isolation ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore, after being confirmed as Singapore's first detected case of mpox.

[9] In 2021, cases of mpox were reported in Delta, Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Federal Capital Territory, Niger, and Ogun.