Yellow Fever: Death Toll Rises To 17 In Bauchi State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 2, 2019
TheBauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency says one more patient ofyellow fever has died in Alkaleri Local Council of the state.
Theagency’s Executive Chairman Rilwanu Mohammed who made this known at a newsconference in Bauchi, said that the additional death brought to seventeendeaths out of the twenty yellow fever cases recently recorded in eleven localgovernment areas of the state.
Headded that thirteen out of the dead were recorded in Alkaleri Local Government;one in Bauchi, one in Dass, one in Darazo and one in Ningi Local Council of thestate.
Otherlocal council areas affected are Gamawa, Jamare, Kirfi, Tafawa Balewa, Torroand Warji.
Meanwhile,the Bauchi State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the agency andBauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV, Malaria, Leprosy and Tuberculosishas commenced fumigation in Alkaleri Local Government Agency.