Nigeria: Pneumonia - Awareness, Education and Immunisation Way Out for Nigeria

16 April 2013

Many Nigerians have a wrong mind set about pneumonia. They ignorantly warn children and wards not to take cold drinks or water to avoid contracting pneumonia and sometimes encourage them instead to wear sweater or thick clothings to prevent it but the main cause is pneumonia virus transmitted by inhaling germs from dirty environments or ingesting same through the mouth by eating contaminated fluids. If it was due to cold, all the children in cold regions abroad would have contracted it by now.'

But this is far from truth and pneumonia still accounts for about 17 per cent of total infant mortality recorded yearly in the country.

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