ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – No fewer than 1,179 suspected cases of yellow fever and 14 deaths were recorded from 35 states in Nigeria between January 1 and July 31, the country’s diseases control and prevention agency said.
In its situation report, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said 416 local government areas were affected.
It said the cases were reported thus: Abia (36), Adamawa (18), Akwa Ibom (9), Anambra (84), Bauchi (38), Bayelsa (13), Benue (24), Borno (100), Cross River (26), Delta (8), Ebonyi (27), Edo (14), Ekiti (29), Enugu (67), FCT (5), Gombe (14), Imo (43), Jigawa (81), Kaduna (8), Kano (4), Katsina (81), Kebbi (21), Kogi (15), Kwara (21), Lagos (4), Nasarawa (24), Niger (25), Ogun (25), Ondo (62), Osun (19), Oyo (73), Plateau (45), Rivers (23), Sokoto (16), Taraba (33), Yobe (31) and Zamfara (13).
The report said: “Fourteen deaths were recorded from suspected cases in Abia (1), Bayelsa (1), Benue (1), Imo (1), Kaduna (1), Katsina (2), Kebbi (1), Taraba (2), Yobe (1) and Zamfara (3).”
It said male to female ratio for suspected cases was 1:1.7 with males 637(54 percent) and females 542 (46 percent).
The report added that 74 percent of cases were predominantly aged 30 years and below.
It furthered that 126 (10.7 percent) of 1,179 suspected cases had at least one dose of the yellow fever vaccine.