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Measles cases shoot up in Kano

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    Measles cases in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, reached 16,263 in the first 21 weeks of this year as against 2,111 for the same period of 2000, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), reported on Tuesday.

    “Cases of measles have been rising since November last year,” Dr Gebrewold Petros, medical coordinator of MSF in Nigeria, told IRIN. “They have started dropping now.” While MSF did not provide fatality figures, local newspapers quoting health officials from different parts of northern Nigeria indicate that the disease also claimed more lives.

    [See separate story titled ‘NIGERIA: Measles cases increase by nearly 700 percent in Kano’]

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