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11 Things You Need To Know About Yellow Fever Cases In Delta, Enugu, Bauchi

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  1. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is currently responding
    to yellow fever outbreaks in three states – Delta, Enugu and Bauchi
    States.
  2. On 1st, 2nd and 8th of November, clusters of cases and deaths were
    reported to NCDC by the State Epidemiologists of Delta, Enugu and
    Bauchi States respectively.
  3. Seventy- four suspected cases with 35 deaths were reported from Delta
    State; 70 suspected cases with 33 deaths from Enugu State and 78
    suspected cases with 8 deaths from Bauchi state.
  4. From the preliminary investigations, three samples from Delta (6th November), one sample from Enugu (6th November) and eight samples
    from Bauchi (8th November) were confirmed as yellow fever with PCR at
    the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa.
  5. Between the 1st and 11th of November 2020, a total of 222 suspected
    cases, 19 confirmed cases and 76 deaths have been reported from these
    three states.
  6. Most of the cases are males, with age ranging from 1-55 years and
    presented with fever, headache, fatigue, jaundice, abdominal pain,
    vomiting with or without blood, epistaxis, blood in stools/urine,
    convulsion and unconsciousness.
  7. On 7th of November, the National Yellow fever Emergency Operations
    Centre (EOC) was activated to coordinate response activities across all
    affected states.
  8. The State Epidemiology Team in the affected states is leading the
    response with support from NCDC, National Primary Health Care
    Development Agency (NPHCDA) and WHO.
  9. National RRTs from NCDC have been deployed to support response
    activities in Delta and Enugu States.
  10. As at epi-week 41 this year, Nigeria has reported a total of eight
    confirmed cases of yellow fever from 7 LGAs across 4 states with no
    death among confirmed cases.
  11.  A multi-agency yellow fever technical working group coordinated by
    NCDC, has been coordinating yellow fever prevention, preparedness
    and response activities.

 

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