A fresh outbreak of diphtheria has reportedly killed four children and left 28 hospitalized in villages in Kano State.
Tasiu Dadin-Duniya, the Information Officer of Minjibir Local Government Area (LGA), disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, March 21, Punch reports.
According to the statement, the children contracted the disease in Kwarkiya, Kuru, Kunya, and Minjibir villages.
Kano State tops the charts, according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Kano, Yobe, Bauchi, Katsina, and Borno accounted for 99% of the 16,518 confirmed cases recorded across 160 LGAs in 22 states from week 19 of 2022 to week 11 of 2024, according to the latest NCDC data, Premium Times reports.
It added that the disease has killed 839 persons with a case fatality rate of 5.0%.
