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Outbreak of new viral disease ‘monkey pox’ hits Bayelsa, as doctor, 10 others quarantined

A new viral epidemic known as “monkey pox” has broken out in Bayelsa State. A medical doctor and 10 other persons who came down with the monkey pox had been quarantined in an isolation centre created at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The isolation centre

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Full list of anti-malaria drugs banned by Senate

The Nigerian Senate has listed about 42 anti-malaria drugs that have been banned in Europe but are still sold in hospitals and pharmacies in Nigeria. The lawmakers raised the alarm that all the forty two anti-malaria drugs were still being stockpiled, sold and consumed in the country. Hence, the Senate has mandated its Committee on

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