UNICEF has warned against Mashako disease that has killed more than 100 children in Nigeria The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF ...
UNICEF has warned against Mashako disease that has killed more than 100 children in Nigeria
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF said in less than 7 months, Diphtheria has killed 122 children in Nigeria.
Ms Safiya Akau, the head of the media department of UNICEF in Nigeria, said that the agency is doing everything possible to control the epidemic of the disease that affects the respiratory system and leads to death.
Ms Safiya Akau, the head of the information department of UNICEF in Nigeria, said that as of last July, at least 3,850 people were thought to be infected with the disease, but research confirmed that 1,387 people had contracted it, and 71.5 percent those who carry it are children between 2 and 14 years old.
The president said that the states of Kano, Yobe, Katsina, Lagos, Sokoto, Zamfara and the capital Abuja have 98 percent of those who have contracted the disease at the moment.