-Among Sinoe Prison Inmates
MONROVIA – The National Public Health Institutes of Liberia (NPHIL) says it is investigating reports of another Pox-Like disease among inmates at the Sinoe Prison.
“The attention of the National Public Health Institutes of Liberia (NPHIL) is drawn to reports of another pox-like disease among inmates in a prison in Greenville, Sinoe County,” NPHIL noted in a release dated January 25, 2025.
The release stressed, “Our attention is heightened, because of the ongoing continental and global Mpox outbreak to which the NPHIL is responding in LuberiCounty and District Surveillance officers have been informed and are performing the required epidemiological preparedness and response investigation including assessing suspected persons or inmates to evaluate the symptoms and of the reported disease in question.”
As a procedure, the entity says appropriate specimens will be collected and sent to the National Reference Laboratory for testing to determine the pathogen and its biomolecular characteristics.
Meanwhile, the NPHIL admonishes the public not to panic, but to remain calm and contact the NPHIL for accurate information, while we investigate the reports. “Updates will be promptly communicated as information becomes available. Avoid contact and observe all sanitary measures.”
