The Kano State Ministry of Health has refuted claims of a measles outbreak in Kano Municipal Local Government Area. In a statement issued by the ministry’s...
Global measles deaths increased by 50 per cent from 2016 to 2019, claiming over 207,500 lives in 2019, WHO said in a statement issued from its...
The Plateau Government on Friday lamented what it called the diversion of people’s attention from the devastating effects of the deadly Measles disease to COVID-19 in...
The World Health Organisation on Monday noted that the cases and deaths from the coronavirus [COVID-19] pandemic in Africa appear unreal. WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, disclosed...
US hospitals are gearing up to test a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles outbreaks in the days before vaccines and tried more...
Nigerian authorities have been in touch with around 100 people who may have been exposed to an Italian man who is the country’s first coronavirus patient,...
Popular Nigerian comedian and broadcaster Kelly Egbere, also known as ‘Kelly blind’, on Monday recounted how he lost his sight to measles while he was nine...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said among low-and-middle-income countries, Nigeria has the highest number of children, at nearly 4 million, under age one who...