The Cross River Epidemiologist, Mrs Inyang Ekpenyong, has confirmed two new cases of Monkeypox in Calabar Municipality Local Government Area.
She made the confirmation in a statement in Calabar on Saturday.
It would be recalled that the state had earlier reported a case in Okoshe, Obudu Local Government Area, which was confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory in Abuja.
Ekpenyong said a case management team had been informed for the urgent evacuation of the two cases to an isolation centre.
She added that “the state/LGA Rapid Response Team (RRT) have commenced contact tracing, listing and monitoring.
“We also use this opportunity to appeal for financial resources to urgently carry out the needed response activities.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mpox is a rare disease caused by the M-pox virus, which usually affects rodents such as rats or mice or non-human primates such as monkeys.
The disease, which was first discovered in Central Africa, is spread mainly through close contact and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with M-pox. (NAN)