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.