A diphtheria outbreak in the Mbutu Community, located in the Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State, has ...

The Mbutu Community in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State is grappling with a deadly diphtheria outbreak that has ...

A diphtheria outbreak in Mbutu Community, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, has led to the deaths of several ...

Unconfirmed number of children have been confirmed dead in Mbutu Community in Aboh Mbaise local government area of Imo State ...

Nigeria is grappling with one of its most severe public health emergencies in recent history as a nationwide diphtheria ...

Several children are said to have died following a sudden outbreak of diphtheria in Mbutu Community of Aboh Mbaise Local ...

The House of Representatives has directed the Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), and the National Health Care Development Agency (NHCDA) to enforce the ...

Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the ...

Diphtheria, first described by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, in the fifth century BC, is a highly communicable disease that primarily affects the skin or upper throat (nasopharynx ...

DTaP and Tdap are combination vaccines that protect against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. DTaP is given to infants and young children, whereas Tdap is administered to anyone above the ...

Those vaccines included MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis), polio, and chickenpox. In the current study, Kiang and his colleagues modeled each ...

The authorities shut all nursery, primary, and secondary schools in the Mbutu community of the Aboh Mbaise LGA in the state.