Showing posts with label Nigeria Centre for Disease Control; Emergency Operations Centre. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 25, 2017

FG Announces Nigeria Meningitis Free After 1,166 Deaths

●Nigeria has been declared free from the ‘Type C’ deadly epidemic of Cerospinal Meningitis (CSM) ●1,166 people have died since the outbreak in December, 2016 ●No Local Government Area has reached outbreak alert threshold in the last 4 weeks.
After a “constant decline for eight weeks" the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared Nigeria free from the ‘Type C’ deadly epidemic of Cerospinal Meningitis.