One case of the disease, which was first detected in Bayelsa state, has been confirmed.
The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Charles Udoh, who confirmed this said two other suspected cases are under investigation.
Meanwhile, Cross River state Government on Sunday said it had strengthened its surveillance team in border communities and all the local governments of the state as monkey pox outbreak hits some states in South-South.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Inyang Asibong, who disclosed this in an interview with the newsmen in Calabar said the state had also taken proactive measures by dispatching its epidemiological team to strategic areas in the state.
Asibong described monkey pox as a rare viral disease transmitted to humans from animals, adding that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970.
According to her, infection of the disease results from direct contact with the blood, bodily fluids and muscular injury of infected animals. She said that the incubation period ranged five to 21 days.
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