Kano State according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) tops the diphtheria disease charts in the country.
A fresh outbreak of diphtheria disease has reportedly killed four children in villages in the Mingibir Local Government Area of Kano State, PulseNets report.
28 others were said to have been hospitalised, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Information Officer of the local government, Tasiu Dadin-Duniya, Punch reports.
According to the statement, the children contracted the disease in Kwarkiya, Kuru, Kunya and Minjibir Villages in Minjibir Local Government Area of the state.
Kano State, according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), tops the diphtheria disease charts.
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Kano, Yobe, Bauchi, Katsina and Borno accounted for 98.9 per cent of the 16,518 confirmed cases recorded across 160 LGAs in 22 states from week 19, 2022 to week 11 of 2024, according to the latest NCDC data sent to PREMIUM TIMES.
It added that the disease has killed 839 persons with a case fatality rate of 5.0 per cent.
