One person has been confirmed dead following a case of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) outbreak in Cross River while 23 others are currently receiving treatment at the University of Calabar Teachi
The death figure in the Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) epidemic has risen from 328 to 336 as at yesterday even as the number of cases also increased from 2,524 persons to 2,997.
NAIROBI, (Xinhua) -- A new vaccine to contain meningitis was launched on Thursday evening in Nairobi as the debilitating bacterial disease threatens to break out in the country’s northern counties
The Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, on Wednesday confirmed that Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM, has killed not less than four children in Durumi-Garki, a suburb of the FCT.
Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday.
Nigeria is on a red alert as the current epidemic of meningitis that started in December 2016 has killed no fewer than 211 Nigerians and affected 1,407.
Following the death toll as a result of meningitis outbreak which has killed 23 people in Sokoto State, the Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Balarabe Kakale, yesterday said the state government is c
The Nadowli-kaleo, Jirapa and Nandom Districts by virtue of the geographical location in the African Meningitis belt, experienced a surge in the number of meningitis cases during the dry harmattan
