By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed four cases of yellow fever in Bauchi State. Three of the confirmed cases are residents of Alkaleri Local Government Area (LGA) and the fourth case is a tourist who was visiting Kano State and also visited the Yankari Games Reserve in the same LGA in Bauchi State.
NCDC was first notified on the 29th of August, when they received the report of a confirmed case of Yellow Fever in Kano State from a laboratory in our Yellow Fever laboratory network. Subsequent investigations led by the Kano State Epidemiology Team established that this confirmed case of yellow fever was from a patient who visited the Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi, in August 2019 with his father. Unfortunately, the father died with similar symptoms before a sample could be collected and tested.
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Subsequently, on the 3rd of September 2019, the Borno State Epidemiology Team reported deaths among students of Waka College of Education in Biu LGA Borno State. These students visited the Yankari Game Resort in August 2019. Of the 95 Students that visited the resort, eight of them developed symptoms and six had died as at the time of the report. The others are in a stable condition. Samples from these cases are being tested.
Intensification of surveillance activities has led to the identification of three more confirmed cases who are all resident in Alkaleri Local Government Area (LGA), of Bauchi state.
Altogether, we can confirm four cases of yellow fever in people that either live or have visited Bauchi in the last one month.
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Neste caso para evitar uma contaminação em massa o ideal é orientar a população sobre o Aedes Aegypti, evitando focos de possíveis criadouros nas Residências este é o início do combate a doença. Na maioria dos casos no Brasil é devido a falta de educação da população e sem a população na prevenção só o governo não consegue eliminar a epidemia. grpmoura@hotmail com
In this case, to avoid mass contamination, the ideal is to guide the population about Aedes Aegypti, to avoid outbreaks of potential risk creators in homes that are started to fight disease. In most cases in Brazil, due to the lack of education of the population and without the population in preventing government damage, it is not possible to remove an epidemic. grpmoura @ hotmail com