Health Alerts

Yellow fever has killed 112 people since September last year in the central state of Benue and authorities fear that the outbreak in one of the affected local government areas (LGAs) won’t end anytime soon as a reactive vaccination campaign is meeting with local resistance over their traditional beliefs. The two LGAs at the centre of the outbreak lie close to the borders with Kogi and Enugu states. Meanwhile, also in Benue, state authorities are warning residents of two LGAs near the Benue River (Agatu and Guma) against consuming untreated water after cholera caused the deaths of 25 people.  Read More

THE NEW YEAR has begun with four states already reporting Lassa fever cases – Ondo, Edo, Bauchi and Ebonyi. A total of nine confirmed and 109 suspected cases were recorded in the first week of January, following a record year in 2019: ‘1,189 cases of the acute viral haemorrhagic illness were recorded in 27 states across the country in 2020, resulting in 244 fatalities’. Read more