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Nigeria recorded 85 deaths from Lassa fever in the first 6weeks of 2023 in 20 states and 79 Local Government Areas, LGAs, according to the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (NCDC). Disclosing this in the Lassa Fever…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the death toll of Lassa fever in Nigeria this year has risen to 104. In its week eight, Lassa fever situation report, the NCDC said that there had been a total number of 636 confirmed…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said Nigeria is at moderate risk of importing Marburg Virus Disease following the outbreak of the endemic disease in Equatorial Guinea. Marburg virus disease is a…

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed that the agency had an emergency meeting in Jigawa state over the meningitis outbreak in the state. Dr. Adetifa said the…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), said it has inaugurated its first-ever Zonal Reference Laboratory (ZRL) in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti capital. The information is in a statement signed by the NCDC Director-General,…

The number of confirmed Lassa fever cases in Nigeria rose to 244 in the first three weeks of 2023. With a record of 18 new deaths from the viral infection from January 16 to 22, the total death toll rose to 37. This report was obtained from…

Nigeria recorded 23,550 suspected cases of cholera in 2022 with Borno taking the lead with 12,459 cases. The country also lost 583 people to the plague in 2022, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC), said COVID-19 and other diseases have emphasised the importance of hand washing with soap to reduce the spread of diseases. Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, Director General of NCDC, told…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 29 new cases of COVID-19 in six States of Nigeria. The cases were dictated between January 7th to 13th, 2023. The States with the confirmed COVID-19 cases are: Lagos (15); FCT…

In its report for the last week of the year 2022, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC) disclosed that it recorded no less than 189 deaths from Lassa fever out of  the 1,067 confirmed cases in 112 Local Government Areas in 27…