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| Africa Live this week: 26 February-3 March 2024 - BBC News | Africa Live this week: 26 February-3 March 2024 - BBC News |
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| Makuochi Okafor | |
| BBC News | BBC News |
| At least 17 schoolchildren across five schools in Nigeria's north-eastern Yobe state have died after an outbreak of meningitis, authorities have confirmed. | |
| Among the deceased are students in primary schools and others in boarding secondary | |
| schools, the state commissioner for education, Mohammed Sani-Idris, told the BBC. | |
| A total of 473 suspected | |
| cases have been recorded so far, he said. | |
| Meningitis is an infection which | |
| causes an acute inflammation of the outer layers of the brain and spinal cord. | |
| It can be life-threatening unless diagnosed and treated early. | |
| Vaccination is an effective way of preventing meningitis. | |
| The Nigeria | |
| Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) had earlier in the year put out a public health | |
| advisory on the disease. | |
| It highlighted that the dry season could “increase the | |
| risk of infection, especially with crowding and poor ventilation”. | |
| Most cases of the disease in Nigeria | |
| are reported in what has been termed the "Meningitis Belt," which | |
| covers all 19 states in the northern region. | |
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