Monkeypox Outbreak 2025 Nigeria. Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of a vaccine to combat mpox, making it the first african country to receive a batch amid the current outbreak of disease that used to be called. This update also features significant developments, including updates to the who sage recommendations on mpox vaccines in outbreak settings, forthcoming revisions to the.
Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is an infectious disease closely related to but much less severe than smallpox, and is suspected to originate in african rodents and non. Mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, causes the most important global human orthopoxvirus disease since smallpox was eradicated in 1979.