Nigeria Starts Mpox Vaccination Program

Reuters (11/18, Eboh) reports, “Nigeria started mpox vaccinations on Monday, administering shots to health workers and people with weak immune systems at hospitals in the capital Abuja, more than a month after the programme was scheduled to start.” Hafsat Abdullazeez from the Institute of Human Virology in Abuja said, “It is not a mass vaccination but target-ringed vaccination for health care workers and immuno-compromised persons, that is, people living with HIV.” Hadley Ikwe of the US CDC “said the initial vaccination program would last 10 days, focusing on Abuja and seven states, including oil-producing Akwa Ibom, Baylesa and Rivers, where several cases have been recorded.”