Meningitis - Neisseria -- Nigeria
More than 1000 people have died, since November [2016], of the meningitis virus that has spread to northern Nigeria; but the epidemic is now under control, the National Center for Disease Surveillance (NCDC) said today [Thu 11 may 2017].
"As of [Tue 9 May 2017], 13 420 suspected cases of meningitis were registered in 23 states of the country, causing 1069 deaths, or an 8 percent of infected people," the NCDC said in a statement. The epidemic is thus present in half of the 36 states of
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