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16 Mar
Again, Lassa fever is on the prowl in Nigeria and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is battling to bring it under control and ensure less infections and deaths.
7 Mar
Continued spread of Lassa fever in the country has raised concerns among stakeholders on measures to contain it, citing the need to intensify campaigns about personal and environmental hygiene.
4 Mar
The toilet was a jerry-built improvised by the market users and sat wobbly nine metres from the garri displayed in different sizes of bowls. The flies held her gaze: they rose in thick, green swarms and perched in formation on the dingy slab of the toilet.
7 Oct
In the formative years of children, they are most prone to many kinds of transmittable infections. According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), children under the age of five are especially vulnerable to infectious diseases like malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, HIV and tuberculosis. They have a very fragile immune system to fend off…
23 Apr 2023
Despite, the efforts by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), and other relevant stakeholders in the health sector to prevent and eradicate Lassa fever cases in Nigeria, the virus is still so much around with us.

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