Monkeypox Case Update: 10 People Died, Latest in Nigeria

AFRICA, celebrities.id – Monkey Pox cause death. A total of nine deaths were reported in Congo throughout 2022, the latest being one in Nigeria.

Doctor Aime Alongo, head of the Sankuru Health Division in Congo, said 465 cases of the disease smallpox monkeys have been confirmed in the country as of Monday, May 30, 2022. The record is the worst case in West and Central Africa.

On that occasion, Dr Alongo explained why so many cases of monkeypox were confirmed in Congo and why the country always reports cases every year.

“Monkeypox disease It is widely reported in Congo and always occurs every year due to the habits of the people there who eat monkey meat and dead rats,” said Dr Alongo, quoted by Business Standard, Tuesday (31/5/2022).

Yes, there is a kind of custom in Congo, the people of that country will go into the forest, look for the carcasses of monkeys, rats, and bats, which are reservoirs of smallpox, and then process them into food when they get home.

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