International Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Dimie Ogoina Discusses the Mpox Outbreaks

In 2017, Dr. Dimie Ogoina, an infectious disease expert treating patients in a hospital in Nigeria, raised concerns about mpox and was among the first to suggest it might be sexually transmitted. His warnings were largely ignored.
It wasn&rsquo;t until 2022, when cases appeared in Europe and the U.S. and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, that most people in the developed world even heard of the disease.