Nigeria’s centre for disease control has confirmed the outbreak of Yellow Fever in Bauchi State.
The Director General of the NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, in a statement on Friday said the agency was first notified of the outbreak on August 29, Punch reports.
He said the agency received the report of a confirmed case of yellow fever in Kano State from a laboratory in its network.
Also, the Bauchi State government confirmed an outbreak of the disease in the state on Thursday.
The Punch Newspaper reported that the Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Rilwan Mohammed, said the Ministry of Health had a yellow fever case linked to Yankari Game Reserve.
The outbreak is also linked to the death of four students of the College of Education, Waka-Biu, Borno.
The students had gone on a field trip to Yankari Game Reserve, in Bauchi State as part of their course work.
On Wednesday, PREMIUM TIMES reported that at least four of the people had been confirmed dead and 12 hospitalised.
According to the statement, three of the confirmed cases are residents of Alkaleri Local Government Area (LGA).
The fourth case is a tourist who was visiting Kano State and also visited the Yankari Games Reserve in the same LGA in Bauchi.
This development is coming weeks after confirmed cases of yellow fever outbreak in Ebonyi State.