In the press release, members of the public were urged to remain calm, alert and know the signs and symptoms of the disease NAIJ.com earlier reported that a medical doctor and 10 others were down with the disease and were being quarantined in an isolation centre at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, in Yenagoa local government area of the state. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has listed the major facts about the disease. Monkeypox is not a newly discovered disease, it has been known for decades, although relatively rare. Dr Charles-Davies OA, a medical doctor and founder of 25 Doctors, a platform where you can ask doctors questions online, spoke to NAIJ.com about the ways the disease is transmitted. Here are 7 different ways the disease is transmitted: