The
Plateau state commissioner for health, Dr. Kunden Deyin, on Monday said
the State had confirmed three cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis.Deyin told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos, that the three cases
manifested clinical symptoms of the disease and laboratory tests
confirmed them to be cerebrospinal meningitis.He added, however, that the tests were yet to ascertain whether the cases were type ”A” or ”C”.Deyin recalled that Plateau last administered vaccines for CSM type
”A” in 2013, stressing that the vaccine was expected to last for 10
years in the individual’s system.The commissioner said the first suspected cases, reported from
Lantang South and Mikang Local Government Areas, turned out to be false
after laboratory tests.According to him, for a state to qualify for the type ”C” vaccines, it must have recorded three confirmed cases of the disease.”It means that Plateau has qualified, but accessing the vaccines for
type ”C” is very difficult; currently the vaccines available worldwide
are five million doses,” he said.
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