The Adamawa state government, in Nigeria’s northeast, has initiated monitoring of schools across the state to ensure total compliance with the government directive to close schools…
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Reports say no less than 45 people have succumbed to the measles outbreak that has spread in Adamawa North Senatorial District of Adamawa with Mubi and…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), formerly known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, has officially declared a measles and whooping cough outbreak in…
Burkina Faso’s health ministry has warned of a possible measles epidemic, citing 2,190 suspected cases, 960 confirmed cases, and five deaths in 2023. From January 1…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed concern Tuesday about the rapid spread of measles, with over 306,000 cases registered worldwide last year, a 79 percent rise…
South Sudan’s Director-General for Preventive Health Services, John Rumunu, has confirmed an outbreak of measles in five regional states. Rumunu, who said the North African country…
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared the end of a 25-month outbreak of measles that claimed the lives of more than 7,000…