Thread by @Rajeev_The_King

For the period, 1st January 2020 to 1st May 2022, a total of 10 545 cases (suspected) and 362 deaths of Monkeypox were recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

For 2022 alone, up to week 17, DRC has reported 1238 cases with 57 deaths.

There is an issue of having laboratory-confirmed diagnosis in DRC due to limited resources, hence suspected cases are reported.

DRC is suffering the most complex and longest humanitarian crises in the world.

Over 27 million Congolese are acutely food insecure at Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) level -- the highest number worldwide.

reliefweb.int/report/democra…

Already 57 Monkeypox deaths in 2022 in the DRC. I was unable to find in death data for 2016 and 2017

In 2017, after 39 years without reporting a case of Monkeypox, Nigeria suffered an outbreak.

From 2017 to 2022 (1 May), a total of 558 confirmed cases have been reported with 8 deaths

Here are suspected cases of Monkeypox reported in Nigeria from 2017 to 2022.

Nigeria have very good surveillance of Monkeypox and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) regurlarly prepare reports.

The public dashboard can be accessed here: ncdc.gov.ng/data

For 2000–2019, the numbers for the Central African clade are based largely on suspected cases, per the reporting system by the DRC.

journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

A good paper describing the genetic and epidemiological characteristics of Nigerian and exported cases.
academic.oup.com/jid/article/22…

The United States reported a multistate outbreak in 2003, when a shipment of small mammals (rope squirrels, tree squirrels, African giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines, dormice, and striped mice) from Ghana spread the virus to pet prairie dogs.

This forced the CDC and FDA to prohibit the importation of African rodents into USA.

cdc.gov/poxvirus/monke…

Will end this thread by quoting a snippet of @arimoin and team's paper published in 2010
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…