As Nigeria takes stock of the heavy toll of the current meningitis outbreak on its citizens, concerns persist over the continuing failure of the authorities to take obvious measures to check the recurrent disease.
The current outbreak this year became an epidemic, despite the country's past experiences with the disease and early warnings by local and international health agencies of its imminence.
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