Yellow Fever: NCDC Confirms Outbreak, Deaths In Bauchi - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 6, 2019
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control ,NCDC has confirmed that some persons have died following an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Bauchi State.
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In a statement on Friday said theCommission said it was first notified of the outbreak on August 29 when theagency received the report of a confirmed case of yellow fever in Kano State froma laboratory in its network.
According to the statement, three of theconfirmed cases are residents of Alkaleri Local Government Area , with a fourthcase linked to a tourist who was visiting Kano State and also visited theYankari Games Reserve in the same LGA within Bauchi.
The commission further stated thatsubsequent investigations led by the Kano State Epidemiology Team establishedthat the confirmed case of yellow fever “was from a patient who visited theYankari Game Reserve in Bauchi, in August with his father.
In a similar vein, the Borno StateEpidemiology Team on Tuesday had reported deaths among students of Waka Collegeof Education in Biu LGA Borno State.