The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) in Lagos, Nigeria has achieved full laboratory accreditation status from the World Health Organization (WHO) for its contribution to the fight against measles and ...
There has been a significant setback in global progress towards achieving and maintaining measles elimination and the decline leaves millions of children susceptible to infection. Measles vaccination coverage has steadily ...
Measles cases have continued to climb into 2019. Preliminary global data shows that reported cases rose by 300 percent in the first three months of 2019, compared to the same ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of unvaccinated infants in the world with 3.9 million, representing 20% of the world's under-vaccinated children. Nigeria is ...
As measles immunization exercise gets underway in Oyo state, govt allays citizens' vaccination concerns Oyo state government today announced it is engaging 80,351 individuals to mobilize citizens for the ongoing ...
Most measles-related deaths are caused by complications associated with the disease Measles is a highly contagious, serious disease caused by a virus. Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 ...
For the first time, global measles deaths have fallen below 100 000 per year. In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people died from measles – an 84% drop from more than ...
