Total of 550 suspected cases of eight different diseases comprising measles, cerebrospinal meningitis, yellow fever and five others were recorded in one week across the states in the country.

THE Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that a total of 550 suspected cases of eight different diseases comprising measles, cerebrospinal meningitis, yellow fever and five others were recorded in one week across the states in the country.

In its weekly, epidemiological report for the week 35 released on Tuesday, the NCDC listed other diseases to include cholera, lassa fever, monkey pox, acute flaccid paralysis, and influenza subtype A and B.



According to the breakdown of the cases, measles account for the highest figures with 307 suspected cases across 127 local governments of 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Acute flaccid paralysis and lassa fever diseases followed measles with 74 and 73 suspected cases respectively.

Others were Yellow Fever with 44 cases, cholera-33 cases, cerebrospinal meningitis-16, monkeypox-2 and a case of influenza.



Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease, however, thousands of measles cases have been recorded in 2019 in Nigeria.

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