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“In the last month alone, we have been responding to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, outbreaks of cholera in several states and the panic associated with the detection of a monkeypox case in the US with travel history from Nigeria. Every week, we detect cases of yellow fever, Lassa fever, measles, and other infectious diseases that are endemic in Nigeria.”
Read this article written by Guardian Nigeria on the just concluded Nigerian Conference of Applied and Field Epidemiology, 2021.
🔗 https://m.guardian.ng/features/health/experts-brainstorm-on-lessons-from-covid-19-pandemic-disease-outbreaks/amp/
#NiCAFE2021
“In the last month alone, we have been responding to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, outbreaks of cholera in several states and the panic associated with the detection of a monkeypox case in the US with travel history from Nigeria. Every week, we detect cases of yellow fever, Lassa fever, measles, and other infectious diseases that are endemic in Nigeria.”
Read this article written by Guardian Nigeria on the just concluded Nigerian Conference of Applied and Field Epidemiology, 2021.
🔗 https://m.guardian.ng/features/health/experts-brainstorm-on-lessons-from-covid-19-pandemic-disease-outbreaks/amp/
#NiCAFE2021
The Guardian
Experts brainstorm on lessons from COVID-19 pandemic, disease outbreaks
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria is at risk of yearly, multiple, and concurrent disease outbreaks due to tropical climate, population density, and poor socioeconomic factors.