NewsDesk @bactiman63 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported recently that from February to May 2023 measles outbreaks attributed to the continuous influx...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported more than 10,000 suspected measles cases during the first eight months of 2021. From January 1 through August 31,...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 UN health officials say Nigeria has been experiencing a large outbreak of measles since the beginning of the year, affecting all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory...

Nigeria health officials have reported nearly 6,000 measles cases since the beginning of the year, nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period. Borno State has been hit the hardest...

The Government of Nigeria is reported more than 600 cholera cases in Kukawa Local Government Area (LGA) in Borno State over the past month. Since Feb. 13, 608 cases including 3 deaths have been reported....

After reporting in excess of 5,000 cholera cases since August, the Borno State government declared the end of the cholera outbreak in the state last week. This occurred despite ongoing conflict and concurrent...

Since Feb. 2017, Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection was confirmed in 8  local government areas (LGAs) of Borno, with transmission still ongoing in Rann Kala Balge. The total number of jaundice cases...

With more than 1000 suspected and confirmed cases of cholera including 30 deaths in Borno state as of 07 Sept 2017, World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified its response efforts to contain the...

Nigerian health officials are reporting outbreaks of hepatitis E and cholera in two different states in the country. Hepatitis E A hepatitis E outbreak has been reported in the north-east Borno State,...

Borno state in northeast Nigeria has recorded its first Lassa fever outbreak in almost five decades. The last confirmed outbreak of the deadly disease was in 1969. WHO is supporting the government to...