 The quarrel state government has confirmed the first case of monkey pokes in the state. The state commissioner for health, Dr. Raji Rezak, who confirmed this, said a 20-year-old driver resident in Bubu in Iduliki government area of the state was discovered to have contracted the disease. The commissioner said the driver had been placed on admission at a government hospital while members of his household were on surveillance. Rezak also said that there was an ongoing training and retraining of health workers to strengthen the response of the state government to the developments.