Tag: diarrhoea

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said the outbreak had spread across 14 local government areas ...

Other affected LGAs include Jere with 834 suspected cases, Mafa with 159 cases, Konduga with 95 cases, and Monguno with ...

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If the Gates Foundation’s final 20-year push is about reducing maternal and child mortality, eradicating malaria, ..., Nigeria sits at ...

The advisory comes amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The report identified conflict, climate change, population displacement, and long-term deficiencies in water and sanitation systems as major drivers of ...

WHO has delivered 12 tonnes of emergency medical supplies to the DR Congo as the country battles its 16th Ebola ...

Since Ebola was first identified in 1976, the DRC has recorded 15 outbreaks, more than any other country.

Ms Kaltum-Ahmed said on 30 June, the ministry received reports of multiple students presenting with symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting

The agency noted that 20 healthcare workers were among those infected.

The NCDC noted that the number of new infections decreased from the 54 cases recorded in the previous week

Nigeria recorded 214 confirmed Lassa fever cases and 39 deaths between 30 December 2024 and 19 January 2025.

According to the report, six states have recorded at least one confirmed case across 20 LGAs in 2025

“Rivers is particularly prone to outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea and cholera during the dry seasons.”

The outbreak, which has claimed eight lives out of nine reported cases, has raised concerns about potential risk at the ...

According to the report, the affected states are Edo, Bauchi and Kogi.

The report reveals that the number of new confirmed cases increased from two in week 25 to eight cases, adding ...

Consistently in the past five weeks (weeks 21 to 25), the disease control centre has not reported any fatalities from ...

NCDC noted that one health worker was affected in the reporting week

According to WHO, between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from ...

The number of suspected cases increased compared to that reported for the same period in 2023

" Most of these deaths were concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.”

According to Baruwa community head Khalid Baruwa, the water contamination in Baruwa, Lagos, has caused many residents of the small ...

Every year, WBD is celebrated in the first week of August to raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding and ...

According to the NCDC, 22 states have recorded at least one confirmed case across 89 Local Government Areas.