Decline in Lassa Fever Cases as NCDC Sustains Intensive Response
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Over the last five weeks, there has been a decline in the number of new cases of Lassa fever reported in Nigeria….
NCDC REVIEWS LASSA FEVER OUTBREAK RESPONSE AMIDST REDUCING NUMBER OF CASES
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported a decrease in the number of Lassa fever cases reported weekly in the…
Find, Stop & Prevent Epidemics: Nigeria Unveils Blueprint for Health Security
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“A disease outbreak anywhere is a risk everywhere”. – Tom Frieden, Former Director US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Infectious…
Detect and Respond: How Edo State is responding to the Yellow Fever outbreak
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The new Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) is alive with activity on a Monday morning in Benin City, capital of Edo…
Press Release on activities of the NCDC towards mitigating Lassa fever in Nigeria
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Lassa Fever: we are better prepared but there is no magic bullet On 20th December 2016, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…
Can the ASLM Conference reinvigorate Laboratory Medicine in Nigeria?
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Iruka Okeke is at the University of Ibadan. She writes this week about the progress made in the world of laboratory medicine…
Is this the breaking of a new dawn in Nigeria’s health sector?
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Last Friday’s news flash that President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed new heads to five public health institutions took the Nigerian health sector…
Time for courage: Nigeria’s health security and the National Centre for Disease Control
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Nigeria defeated Ebola! That was the single story. No one asked about how the N1.9B released for the response was used. What…
Lack of trust in health sector: the underlying cause of the large Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria
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Strange deaths in a community in Niger State in 2015 left the community confused, this was followed by a period of uncertainty…
In search of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control
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Earlier this year, we wrote a blog wondering aloud about the N701Million (USD5M) allocated to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)…