Lagos accounts for 11 per cent of Nigeria's TB cases in 2021
TB is the number one infectious killer disease in the world and also among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.
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TB is the number one infectious killer disease in the world and also among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said Nigeria has so far recorded 120 deaths from Lassa fever since the beginning of 2022.
Nigeria ranks first in Africa and sixth amongst 30 countries globally with the highest burden of the disease.
In 2014, when Umar Abdulbaki got his diagnosis of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), a form of tuberculosis caused by bacteria...
There are fresh concerns over the high burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the country as the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) has declared that Nigeria