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Courtesy of GPEI Nigeria is officially one of three countries, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan, where polio is still a threat after the first 19 years deadline set by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eradicate it elapsed. Insecurity in the north-east of Nigeria had hindered the polio vaccination programme, but success in fighting the Boko […]
28 September every year, is a day set aside by the United Nations to raise awareness about one of the horrifying diseases known as Rabies. The awareness is aimed at preventing and defeating rabies, as well as marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur’s death, the French chemist and microbiologist, who developed the first rabies vaccine. […]
The current outbreak of Cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Nigeria is an issue of global concern. The first recorded outbreak CSM sero-type A was in 1999 and since then there has been several repeated outbreaks in 2003, 2008 and 2009. These outbreaks took the lives of many Nigerians before they were contained and eradicated by Federal […]