Dimie Ogoina Monkeypox watchman

During that outbreak, Ogoina, an infectious-disease physician at Niger Delta University in Amassoma, was the first person to diagnose someone with a confirmed case of the disease, which was renamed mpox by the World Health Organization in November to reduce stigma. Since becoming an infectiousdiseas...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2022-12, Vol.612 (7941), p.618-618
Main Author: Kozlov, Max
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disease
Epidemics
Infections
Mpox
Outbreaks
Physicians
Viral diseases
Viruses
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Summary:During that outbreak, Ogoina, an infectious-disease physician at Niger Delta University in Amassoma, was the first person to diagnose someone with a confirmed case of the disease, which was renamed mpox by the World Health Organization in November to reduce stigma. Since becoming an infectiousdisease physician more than a decade ago, he's been at the forefront of Nigeria's research into a raft of other communicable diseases, including H1V/A1DS and Ebola. [...]even though the global outbreak is waning - there are on average fewer than 100 new cases each week globally, down from about ten times that rate in August - the situation on the ground in Nigeria has not changed significantly.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-022-04185-3