In 2017, like never before, Nigeria was faced with several outbreaks –of measles, Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), Lassa fever, yellow fever, cholera and monkeypox. The last large outbreak of Yellow fever in Nigeria was reported to have occurred over thirty years ago. In 2017, investigations into news reports of ‘strange illnesses and deaths’ in Kwara and Kogi State revealed the re-emergence of Yellow fever. But for so many years we were not vaccinating our children against yellow fever, so many people in our communities do not have vaccination against yellow fever. “But we have campaigns against yellow fever that is why we had the recent campaign.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2020 03:00 UTC