NCDC Records 14 Deaths From Yellow Fever Cases In 7 Months

NCDC Records 14 Deaths From Yellow Fever Cases In 7 Months

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, between January and July 2022, yellow fever claimed at least 14 lives in the nation.

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The World Health Organization describes yellow fever as an acute viral hemorrhagic disease with symptoms including fever, headache, jaundice, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue that is spread by infected mosquitoes.

Even though many people don’t have symptoms, the virus takes a few days to less than a week to incubate in the body once it has been caught.

While these symptoms disappear after three to four days in some patients, very few enter a second and more toxic phase within 24 hours of recovering from the initial symptoms.

NCDC Records 14 Deaths From Yellow Fever Cases In 7 Months

In its latest report on Monday, September 5 about the disease, the NCDC stated that the fatalities were recorded in 10 states, including Zamfara which reported three deaths.

The NCDC added that Taraba and Katsina recorded two fatalities each, while other states that reported a death each, were Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Imo, Kaduna, Kebbi, and Yobe.

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The NCDC said a total of 1,179 suspected cases have been reported from 416 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from January 1 to July 31.

“The cases were reported from the following states: Abia (36), Adamawa (18), Akwa Ibom (nine), Anambra (84), Bauchi (38), Bayelsa (13), Benue (24), Borno (100), Cross River (26), Delta (eight), Ebonyi (27), Edo (14), Ekiti (29), Enugu (67), FCT (five), Gombe (14), Imo (43), Jigawa (81), Kaduna (eight), Kano (four), Katsina (81), Kebbi (21), Kogi (15), Kwara (21), Lagos (four), Nasarawa (24), Niger (25), Ogun (25), Ondo (62), Osun (19), Oyo (73), Plateau (45), Rivers (23), Sokoto (16), Taraba (33), Yobe (31), and Zamfara (13),” the report said.

NCDC Records 14 Deaths From Yellow Fever Cases In 7 Months

It added “A total of eight presumptive positive and six inconclusive results were recorded from the Nigeria Laboratory Network. These presumptive positives were from UBTH Benin (two), MDH Abuja (one), CPHL Lagos (three), YDMH (two).”

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According to the agency, the male-to-female ratio for suspected cases is 1:1.7 with males 637 (54%) and females 542 (46%).

Seventy-four percent of the cases were mostly aged 30 years and below while the NCDC said it was coordinating response activities through the National Multi-agency Yellow Fever Technical Working Group (YF TWG).

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