From COVID to Monkey Pox: Can Nigeria afford another epidemic, by Gift Luckson

Barely 2 years after the world was put on hold because of the deadly coronavirus that disrupted the economical and social activities of many nations, claiming millions of lives worldwide, mankind is faced with yet another catastrophe, the monkeypox virus.   Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a brick-shaped virus carrying a double-strand of DNA. The virus that causes monkeypox was first discovered at the end of the 1950s, but there are signs it has undergone changes in the past three to four years which has enabled it to…