According to the Bauchi State Ministry of Health, it is still investigating the widely circulated information on suspected Yellow Fever outbreak linked to the famous Yankari Games Reserve. The viral information has been circulated mostly on social media platforms has it that, a strange disease has claimed the lives of some people including students of a tertiary institution from Biu in Borno and Kano states.
The Presidency has on Monday inaugurated State-of-the-art Dialysis and Ultrasound machines as well as a Creche, at the State House Clinic in Abuja.
The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been deadlier where more than 11,300 people died out of 28,000 who were infected. But in 2019 the death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s has climaxed 2,000 according to government data showed on Friday.
According to Dr Bessie Eziechila, a Consultant Paediatrician working with the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jabi, Abuja disclosed that two years is the normal duration for breastfeeding. This according to her, is for the advantage of both the child and the breast-feeding mother.
Deadly viral infection, Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates. It was established that four (4) drugs were tried on patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the virus has been prevalent.
The Kebbi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA, at the weekend, said it had introduced meningitis vaccine into routine immunization for children from 9 to 15 month old. According to Dailytrust,
