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The health authorities in the Republic of the Congo announced the registration of 9 deaths from monkeypox.
And news agencies quoted the head of Sankoro's health department, Aimee Alongo, as saying that 465 cases of the disease had been confirmed in the country, making it one of the worst-affected regions in West and Central Africa, where the disease is spreading.
"The persistence of the disease in the Congo is due to eating dead monkeys and rodents," Alongo added.
He explained that "the residents enter the forest and pick up the corpses of monkeys, bats and rodents, which are considered reservoirs for monkey pox," calling on the infected and those who showed symptoms of the disease to visit health centers to isolate themselves.
The Congo announcement comes after Nigeria recorded yesterday the first death from monkeypox this year in a patient who was suffering from chronic health problems, according to the Disease Control Authority.
The World Health Organization had confirmed earlier that more than 250 cases of the disease had been reported in more than 20 countries around the world.
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