Nigerian children dying needlessly from measles and other preventable diseases
Measles is a preventable disease yet when it strikes in Nigeria it finds a ready pool of victims most of whom are children.
Lagos - In June more than 50 children died while another 400 were hospitalised in Nigeria's northeast Borno state following a measles outbreak.
The viral disease, transmitted both by air and by bodily fluids, was first reported on 19 June in the village of Njimtilo in the outskirts of the Borno state capital Maiduguri, and then quickly spread to five adjoining local areas including Konduga, Jere, Damboa, Bama and metropolitan Maiduguri.
