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Lara AdejoroThe Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, has constituted an emergency taskforce to curb the diphtheria outbreak in the country.
The taskforce is to be co-chaired by the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib and the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa. Diphtheria is a highly contagious vaccine-preventable disease caused mainly by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae which can be fatal in five to 10 per cent of cases, with a higher mortality rate in young children.
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