Health

Lassa fever confirmed cases in Nigeria have jumped to 889 and 168 people have so far died from the disease, according to the Nigeria...

The World Health Organization in its recent report has clearly mentioned that around 160 million people are at threat of catching 'Yellow Fever' in...

Nigeria has picked the wealthiest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, to lead a committee tasked with the responsibility of eliminating malaria in the west-African nation. The infectious disease has resurfaced across the continent amid the disruptions brought along by the Coronavirus pandemic.

An outbreak in measles in Zimbabwe has claimed the lives of at least 157 children, out of over more than 2,000 person infections around the nation. The following information has been shared by the Zimbabwean government on Tuesday.

The Ebonyi government in Nigeria announced on Monday, August 15, that it had confirmed one monkeypox virus in the state and 32 suspected individuals.

After 17 months of the rollout of vaccination against the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian government has claimed that over 27 million eligible people have been completely vaccinated.

The death toll due to Lassa fever in Nigeria in 2022 till now has risen to 164 amid government measures to lessen infections around the nation, said the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday, July 29.

The Nasarawa State Government of Nigeria has revealed that more than 18,429 individuals have tested positive for Hepatitis in the state.

The Director General of Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Professor Babatunde Salako, on Monday, July 25, stated that it had found a new Malaria vector known as anopheles stephensi in the northern Nigerian region.