According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), the country has recorded 807 suspected cases of cerebrospinal meningitis. PREMIUM TIMES reports that the suspected cases ...

Health authorities in Nigeria are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has ...

Nigeria relied heavily on such aid over the years to help fight similar outbreaks and support its underfunded healthcare systems. Seasonal meningitis outbreaks are common during the dry season ...

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), the country has recorded 807 suspected cases of cerebrospinal meningitis. PREMIUM TIMES reports that the suspected cases have ...

Most of the people who have died presented late. This is why we keep saying, once you start noticing the signs, get yourself ...

ABUYA, Nigeria (AP) — Las autoridades sanitarias de Nigeria están luchando por contener un brote de meningitis que se está propagando rápidamente y que hasta ahora ha causado la muerte de 151 ...

The outbreak, caused by the meningococcus C and W strains, coincides with Nigeria’s dry season, which typically sees a surge in meningitis cases between December and June, peaking in March and ...

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 people across the west African nation, mostly in remote ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the country has recorded a total of 1,858 suspected cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) and 156 associated deaths ...