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The number of Lassa fever infections since the beginning of 2022 is 894, with 168 deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The latest situation report released for week 33 by the NCDC also showed that there are 6392…

Hanifa Hamza, the Kwara Coordinator, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has described the rate of COVID-19 transmission as ‘crazy’, urging citizens to take all available precautions to avoid the pandemic.…

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, said the Monkeypox cases in the country had risen to 220. Dr. Adetifa made this known at the ministerial press briefing on COVID-19 and developments in…

The United States Government, through its Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a delegation to Nigeria to learn capacity building for global health security, disease detection, preparedness and response. The Director of…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has inaugurated a biorepository in Lagos to collect, catalogue and store samples of biological materials for laboratory research. NCDC director-general Ifedayo Adetifa…

Akwa Ibom is driving Nigeria’s latest COVID-19 surge as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirms 517 additional infections between August 6 and 11. The NCDC disclosed this via its official website on Thursday. It said…

The World Health Organisation 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.…

Medical specialists on Wednesday berated the Kogi State Authorities for banning using face masks in public locations as a part of efforts to sort out insecurity within the state. They described the ban as a technique by the governor to…

The Lassa fever cases in Nigeria have jumped to 857 and 164 people have so far died from the disease in the first seven months of 2022. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said this in its latest Lassa fever situation report…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 133 cases of monkeypox in 26 states. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report released on Thursday. Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease…