The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA) said there has been an outbreak of yellow fever in Ganjuwa Local Government Areas (LGA) of the State with eight deaths and eight samples testing positive.
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Chairman of the agency, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, disclosed this at a briefing with Journalists in Bauch on Monday.
He said: “Our polio team were in communities in Ganjuwa for routine exercise and they found out that eight people died of unknown disease, so they reported back.
“Eight samples were brought for lassa fever and yellow fever tests and all the samples tested positive for yellow fever.
“Last year, by this time, we had cases of yellow fever in six LGA of Bauchi, Alkaleri, Warji, Ningi, Kirfi and Darazo.”
Mohammed noted that the community members were predominantly farmers.
He said that the agency would begin vaccination exercise in earnest against the deadly disease in Ganjuwa LGA, even as he called on the general public not to panic as yellow fever has a vaccine.
Mohammed urged members of the the public to use mosquito nets as a preventive measure against other types of fever.
