Lara Adejoro The National Primary Health Care Development Agency said the tentative date to commence vaccination for Mpox is October 8, 2024. The Head of the Public Relations Unit at the NPHCDA, Remi Adeleke who disclosed this exclusively to our correspondent also stated that the vaccine deployment will begin from October 3 to 6, 2024. Adeleke said, “The date for vaccine deployment based on the current chronogram is from October 3rd to 6th, 2024, time to align with the three to six weeks period from vaccine receipt on the 27th of August for NAFDAC to conclude the regulatory procedures of sampling, traceability and lab analysis.
“The tentative implementation date is 8th October 8, 2024. “Due to limited available doses (9,980) of the Jynneos MPox vaccine, the quantities will be slit evenly (1,996 doses) across the five states for implementation. Specific states for implementation are being evaluated based on the current trend of cases in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
” On Tuesday, the government of the United States of America donated 10,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine to Nigeria. Jynneos is a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of smallpox and mpox in adults aged 18 years and older who are at risk of mpox infection. Mpox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease (i.
e. an infection transmitted from animals to humans) that occurs sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and Wes.
