Tag: African meningitis belt

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, ...

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

Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does ...

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 ...