Tag: 200910 West African meningitis outbreak

At least 179 people, almost half of them children, have died of meningitis since January in Niger, where some 3,000 ...

More than 1,000 people have died in an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria, the Centre for Disease Control said Thursday, ...

One of the worst hit areas is Sokoto near the border with Niger At least 300 people have died in ...

Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people ...

Health workers in Nigeria on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to try to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis ...

Nigeria is facing a major shortfall in vaccines to contain an outbreak of meningitis that has claimed 282 lives since ...

Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to ...

An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been ...

A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought ...