Nigeria - 2011 Measles outbreaks

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Bauchi records 2,000 cases of measles outbreak

From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi

Monday, January 24, 2011


No fewer than 2000 cases of measles outbreak have been reported in the 20- local government areas of Bauchi State. A World Health Organization (WHO) Consultant, Dr. Habu Dahiru made the disclosure during an in-house training for members of the Bauchi State chapter of Journalists Initiatives on Immunization Against Polio, (JAP) in Bauchi.

Dahiru said Bauchi, Katagum and Toro local government areas had the highest number of cases, making it alarming compared to reported cases in the same period last year.

He described the outbreak as alarming, considering the morbidity ratio which increased in the last few months.

Dahiru also said surveillance indicated that the outbreak had spread to children who were above the initial target of under 5 years, a development he said called for urgent attention by all concerned medical and health authorities in order to check its spread.

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Re: Nigeria - 2011 Measles outbreaks

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Measles outbreak hits Adamawa

Tuesday, 08 March 2011 01:31
Nigerian Compass

BARELY a month after Adamawa State recorded a deadly incidence of Lassa-fever, the state Ministry of Health has again announced an outbreak of severe measles in at least 16 out of the 21 local government areas of the state.

Confirming the development to newsmen in Yola, the state capital, the Head of the State Epidemiological Unit of the ministry, Dr. Bwalki Barem Dilli, said though the situation has been brought under control, it would have been more devastating but for the recent integrated campaign embarked upon in all the councils by the ministry...