Osun State has recorded the first suspected case of Monkeypox.
The first suspected case was discovered in Iperindo, Atakumosa East Local Government of the State.
However, in Osogbo, Osun State capital, another suspected case was also recorded.
It was gathered that a 14-year-old boy with a symptom of the disease was brought to the General Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo, around 12 pm on Monday.
The boy’s body, it was observed, was full of rashes and shores.
He was admitted to the first office by the left at the Trauma session of the hospital where medical experts attended to him.
The medical experts were kitted in disease preventive personal protective equipment while attending to the patient.
Personnel from Disease Surveillance Notification Unit were part of the team
It was noted that a blood sample was taken from the boy for a test.
“We cannot be too sure that what we are treating is monkeypox until the result of the test is out. But with the symptom we are seeing, it is likely to be monkeypox”, said a medical expert who was part of the team that treated the boy.
The result of the test, it was learnt will be out on Thursday.
But the Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu said he was not aware of the new case.
He, however, said that all the symptoms depicted monkeypox disease but, could not be confirmed as the results are yet to be out.
“The case remained a suspected case until the result confirmed that it is actually monkeypox, as I’m talking to you we are still at the lab,” the Commissioner said.
Adenitan Akinola
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