Nigeria faces rising meningitis deaths. NCDC confirms 151 fatalities. Urgent health measures required to curb outbreak.

Health advisories are issued by health authorities at the local, national and global levels. In Nigeria, the NCDC handles ...

On Monday, Lagos confirmed 10 cases of diphtheria between January and March. Earlier, it reported 14 cases at the King’s College Annex, Lagos. Therefore, the government and all stakeholders in ...

Nigeria has received more than 1 million vaccines from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat a meningitis outbreak in the northern part of the country.

While the diphtheria outbreak has been mainly confined to the newly formed Deeg district, sporadic cases have been reported from other regions of the state. In the latest situation report on ...

LAGOS — Nigeria has taken delivery of over 1.2 million vaccine doses to contain an outbreak of meningitis that has killed dozens and sickened hundreds of others, Unicef and the jabs supplier said ...

Kennedy Jr. said Sunday he visited Texas after a second child died from measles amid an outbreak since January that's resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and has spread across 22 states.

The deadly measles outbreak in Texas is continuing to rise, now approaching 500 confirmed cases with at least 56 people facing hospitalization since late January, according to health officials.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised concern over the high number of unvaccinated children in Bauchi State, revealing that 556,000 children in 13 local government areas (LGAs ...

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