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160 Million Nigerians may get Yellow Fever – WHO
The World Health Organization has said that 160 million Nigerians are at risk of yellow fever. The WHO said with Nigeria’s population of about 200 million, the figure makes up around 25 percent of all the people at risk in Africa. Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The “yellow”…
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Ibadan Residents Laud Yellow Fever Immunization Initiative
Apart from the global Covid-19 pandemic, another health challenge facing the country is yellow fever as being experienced in some states of the country. This informed the Federal Government’s decision to carry out mass immunization against the disease having identified it as an effective means of disease prevention. The ten days exercise, which spans through the local government…
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Combating Communicable Diseases
Recently, Nigeria Centre for Disesae Control, NCDC said a total of forty cases of communicable diseases were confirmed in some states like Delta, Enugu, Bauchi, Benue, Ebonyi and Oyo states. Over seventy people have reportedly died since the recent outbreak of the virus in Bauchi, Delta and Enugu states. In some cases, some residents of Delta…
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No Case Of Yellow Fever At UCH – CMD
No case of Yellow Fever has been reported in Oyo state or at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan. Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the hospital, Professor Jesse Otegbayo stated this at a news briefing in Ibadan. Professor Otegbayo who explained that the disease is more in the Middle Belt, Edo and Delta States urged…
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Ondo Govt. to commence vaccination against yellow fever
The Ondo State Government is to embark on a ten day campaign against yellow fever in Eleven Local Government Areas of the State. During the programme which will run from 20th to 29th of November 2020, children from nine months to adults of up to forty four years old will be vaccinated against yellow fever. …
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Scaling Up Measures to Combat Yellow Fever
One disease which has continued to record recurrence in Nigeria over the years is Yellow Fever. Yellow Fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease spread by a particular species of mosquito common in areas of Africa, Central and South America. The mosquito, aedes aegypti species is believed to transmit the virus from person to person…
