Hitting early, epidemic meningitis ravages nigeria and niger

Leslie Roberts

doi:10.1126/science.324.5923.20

Hitting early, epidemic meningitis ravages nigeria and niger

Leslie Roberts

Mailman School of Public Health

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Nigeria and Niger are reeling from one of the worst meningococcal meningitis epidemics in years. Already, the epidemic has sickened at least 25,000 people, more than 17,000 in Nigeria alone, and killed 1500.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20-21
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science
Volume	324
Issue number	5923
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.324.5923.20
Publication status	Published - Apr 3 2009

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