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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 1007-1014Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2704.203569
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- NHRMC Centre for Research Excellence in Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response [1107393]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1107393] Funding Source: NHMRC
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The monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria from 2017 to 2020 serves as a case study for emerging zoonoses, with declining immunity contributing to the substantial resurgence of the disease. Factors such as population growth, accumulation of unvaccinated cohorts, and decline in smallpox vaccine immunity were identified as key drivers for the renewed outbreak.
A monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria during 2017-2020 provides an illustrative case study for emerging zoonoses. We built a statistical model to simulate declining immunity from monkeypox at 2 levels. At the individual level, we used a constant rate of decline in immunity of 1.29% per year as smallpox vaccination rates fell. At the population level, the cohort of vaccinated residents decreased over time because of deaths and births. By 2016, only 10.1% of the total population in Nigeria was vaccinated against smallpox; the serologic immunity level was 25.7% among vaccinated persons and 2.6% in the overall population. The substantial resurgence of monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017 appears to have been driven by a combination of population growth, accumulation of unvaccinated cohorts, and decline in smallpox vaccine immunity. The expanding unvaccinated population means that entire households, not just children, are now more susceptible to monkeypox, increasing risk of human-to-human transmission.
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