Nigeria: Govt Moves to Avert Possible Measles, Meningitis Epidemics

FOR routine immunisation and to prevent possible outbreaks of measles and meningitis in Nigeria, the Federal Government has procured more vaccines (RI) that will last till early 2016.

Nigeria has also improved RI coverage from 57 per cent in 2011 to 92 per cent in 2015 that is 61.4 per cent improvement even as the country last week, for the first time, marked seven months without any case of the Wild Polio Virus (WPV).

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