Anambra State has recorded her first case of the rampaging Monkey pox disease.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike announced in Awka, on Thursday, that one sample came out positive out of few tested samples.
According to him, the tested samples were those of the suspected cases of the Monkey pox disease recently reported in three different locations across the state, which include Anambra East Local Government Area, Onitsha, and Oyi Local Government areas, out of which that of Anambra East Local Government Area tested positive.
Dr. Obidike revealed that the case is currently at the isolation centre of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, where he is receiving treatment and recovering.
