Nineteen children have succumbed to measles complications in Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State. The commissioner for Health, Felix Tangwami, conveyed this information to…
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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…
A two-week vaccination campaign against the measles will begin in Kenya’s health ministry, targeting 1.2 million children between the ages of nine months and five. 90%…
Since there is limited access to hospitals, residents in rural western Ethiopia claim that children have been dying from a measles outbreak over the previous few…
The Health Ministry of Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa, reported over the weekend that since April of this year, a measles outbreak there has claimed…
According to the country’s information minister, 157 children have died in Zimbabwe’s continuing measles outbreak, with the number of fatalities virtually tripling in just over a…
Liberia’s Health Ministry has confirmed a measles outbreak that has spread to 14 of the country’s 15 counties. Francis Kateh, the Chief Medical Officer, said there…