Nigeria: Govt Dismisses Military Involvement in Monkeypox Vaccination

19 October 2017

The Federal Government has refuted insinuations that the military was vaccinating to spread the monkey pox virus nationwide. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who made the clarification yesterday in Abuja, declared that the military was only carrying out a campaign to win the hearts of Nigerians through one of its numerous outreaches, even as the virus reportedly spreads to 11 states with 74 suspected cases.

He said his ministry was carrying out an advanced test at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics and Infectious Disease ‎to properly understand the genomes of the virus.

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