FG declares Nigeria free of deadly "Type C" meningitis that plagued the country since 2016

The Federal Government has declared that Nigeria is now free of the deadly "Type C" Cero Spinal Meningitis (CSM) which has claimed about 1,166 lives since it broke out in Nigeria in 2016.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said with the decline in Meningitis cases, the 2016/2017 Meningitis outbreak is over and the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) responding to the epidemic has been stepped down.