Nigeria: Risk of Monkey pox five times higher in people unvaccinated against smallpox — Expert

A public health expert, Professor Simeon Cadmus, had said that the risk of Mpox was five times higher among people who had not received smallpox vaccination, and the incidence of the infection had increased by 20 times since the 1980s.

Cadmus, a professor of veterinary public health and preventive medicine at the University of Ibadan, made this disclosure at the opening ceremony and scientific conference of Oyo State NMA’s Physician’s Week with the subtheme “Mitigating the…