Katsina — No fewer than 13 people lost their lives in an outbreak of communicable disease suspected to be meningitis at Karfi Village in Malumfashi local government area of Katsina State. It was gathered that 12 of the victims died at their home while one out of the three persons …
The death figure in the Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) epidemic has risen from 328 to 336 as at yesterday even as the number of cases also increased from 2,524 persons to 2,997. This means that the country has recorded eight more deaths and 473 more cases. But the epidemic is still …
One person has been confirmed dead following a case of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) outbreak in Cross River while 23 others are currently receiving treatment at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH. Inyang Asibong, the State Commissioner for Health, who visited the hospital on Wednesday, said that the disease …
NAIROBI, (Xinhua) -- A new vaccine to contain meningitis was launched on Thursday evening in Nairobi as the debilitating bacterial disease threatens to break out in the country’s northern counties amid biting drought. The new meningitis vaccine called Nimenrix was developed by Pfizer, an American pharmaceutical giant and will bolster …
The acting director-general of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Emmanuel Odu, yesterday told the Senate that a whopping sum of $1.1 billion was currently required for the vaccination of 22 million persons in the five states affected by the outbreak of the Type C cerebrospinal meningitis …
Nigeria gets 500,000 doses of meningitis vaccines to combat outbreakApril 1, 2017 Nigeria Meningitis Epidemic: Death toll rises to 328 as health ministry advises citizensApril 1, 2017 The Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Zamfara chapter, and residents of the state, have accused the state government of negligence in the handling of …
Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday. "Presently we have 1,828 suspected cases... and we have 269 deaths in about 15 states," Olubunmi Ojo of the National Centre for Disease …
The Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, on Wednesday confirmed that Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM, has killed not less than four children in Durumi-Garki, a suburb of the FCT. The Head of Health Department in the council, Modupe Adeyinka, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja. …
Following the death toll as a result of meningitis outbreak which has killed 23 people in Sokoto State, the Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Balarabe Kakale, yesterday said the state government is contemplating closing some public and private schools in the state. Kakale, who made the confirmation during the ongoing sensitisation …
Nigeria is on a red alert as the current epidemic of meningitis that started in December 2016 has killed no fewer than 211 Nigerians and affected 1,407. The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, in a publication on its website on “Meningococcal disease – Nigeria: Disease outbreak news” noted that a …
The Nadowli-kaleo, Jirapa and Nandom Districts by virtue of the geographical location in the African Meningitis belt, experienced a surge in the number of meningitis cases during the dry harmattan season in 2016. Dr. Winfred Ofosu, the Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, announced this at the 2016 annual …
Four people are reported dead out of the nine who tested positive to the meningitis disease in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region in February. In all, the District recorded twenty-four suspected cases of meningitis; however, the Lawra District Directorate of Health say the situation has not reached …
Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African "meningitis belt" countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements—the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac, designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup …
The pattern of epidemic meningococcal disease in the African meningitis belt may be influenced by the background level of population immunity but this has been measured infrequently. A standardised enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring meningococcal serogroup A IgG antibodies was established at five centres within the meningitis belt. Antibody …
Six people have been confirmed to have died of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal meningitis in the Ashanti region. Four of the deaths were attributed to Pneumococcal meningitis while the other two deaths resulted from Meningococcal meningitis. The deaths are among 17 suspected meningitis cases of which nine were confirmed to have …
The Men B vaccine will be given to babies at two, four and 12 months old as part of routine immunisations. Infants under one-year-old are at the most risk of Men B infections, which can cause severe brain damage and is fatal in one in 10 cases. Campaigners said the …
FOUR international public health organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), over the weekend, warned that with Africa at risk of a large meningitis outbreak, an acute shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to severely limit the world’s ability to minimise the number of people affected. International Federation of Red …
Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), we estimated these quantities for acute and chronic diseases and injuries …
An epidemic of meningitis has killed 545 people in Niger, out of 8,234 people who caught the disease, but has now peaked, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO had said that the epidemic was worrying and unprecedented because it was a strain not normally found in Africa …
An outbreak of meningitis with "unprecedented features" is spreading rapidly in Niger, with a tripling of cases in the past two weeks, hundreds of deaths so far this year and vaccines in short supply, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The outbreak is predominantly caused by serogroup C, which …
Mortality in people in Africa with HIV infection starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) is high, particularly in those with advanced disease. We assessed the effect of a short period of community support to supplement clinic-based services combined with serum cryptococcal antigen screening. The researchers did an open-label, randomised controlled trial in …
