Nigeria News: Meningitis outbreak nears 10,000 cases
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#2MF54)
In a follow-up on the meningitis outbreak in Nigeria which started in December 2016, the Nigerian CDC reports 9,646 suspected cases, of which 277 (2.9%) were laboratory confirmed. Nearly 9 percent, or 839 deaths were recorded as of Apr. 22. In the last four weeks, 43 Local Government Areas (LGAs) have reached alert/epidemic threshold in seven States ["]
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