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Nigeria: Measles kills 165 children in Katsina state

A measles outbreak in northern Nigeria's Katsina state has killed 165 children in the last three months and infected more than 3,000 children, according to health officials.

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”[Children have] contracted the diseases in 34 local government areas in the state since January,” Katsina state's director of disease control, Halliru Idris, told IRIN by telephone.

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