Yellow Fever: Yankari Games Reserve to get aircraft spray – Official
The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says the state government has approved the use of an aircraft to spray the Yankari Game Reserve to fight the yellow fever vector.The chairman of the agency, Rilwanu Mohammed, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi.
He said that as at September 9, there were 34 suspected cases of yellow fever in the state with nine deaths and seven confirmed cases. “Only three per cent of the residents will be exempted, and they are children under the age of nine, the old, pregnant women, and HIV patients that are active. “Mosquito nets were also distributed to the 140 rangers because the symptoms are the same with Lassa fever and malaria,” he said.He said that the agency on September 9 vaccinated 1,700 youth corps members to be dispatched from the Orientation Camp against the disease.
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