…Deploys 500,000 vaccine doses, expands treatment centres By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja ABUJA — The Federal Government has activated an emergency multi-agency task force to contain a diphtheria outbreak affecting children in parts of Katsina and Kano states. As part of the immediate response, the government has deployed 500,000 doses of diphtheria vaccines to the two […]

ABUJA -- At least 50 children have been killed and several others hospitalized in an outbreak of diphtheria in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kano, the state legislature said…

Kano State appeals to the Federal Government for additional diphtheria vaccines to combat a deadly outbreak, urging early reporting to save lives.

.NPHCDA deploys 500,000 doses of vaccines