Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ebonyi Government are responding to the outbreak of yellow fever in the state, an official says. In a statement in Abuja on Saturday, the Director General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Ebonyi Public Health team commenced investigation on suspected case on July, […]
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The number of measles cases is projected to increase further in Lithuania as people have lost their collective immunity to this highly contagious viral disease. The Director of Lithuania’s Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), Saulius Caplinskas, said on Friday. “The collective immunity has been lost as a 95 per cent measles vaccination coverage […]
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A cholera outbreak in Gashua, Yobe State has claimed 13 lives out of 160 cases reported in the last six days. A source at the Gashua General Hospital told newsmen that five deaths were first recorded while eight lives were later lost to the disease. The source said that the victims were brought in from […]
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