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Fatality Rate of Bacterial Meningitis
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) is leading an effort to ‘defeat meningitis by 2030’, to reduce cases of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis by 50 percent and…
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Defeat Meningitis
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said, “Wherever it occurs, meningitis can be deadly and debilitating; it strikes quickly, has serious health, economic and social consequences, and…
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Crisis Worsens
Nigeria has taken delivery of only 500,000 doses out of 1.3 million doses of vaccines for meningitis type C strain outbreak. (more…)
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State Acts Quickly
The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 21. (more…)
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West Africa hit!
The meningitis belt of West Africa has been hit again with an outbreak of this deadly disease. (more…)
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