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Yellow Fever — Nigeria
Benue state government, Monday [16 Nov 2020], confirmed that the strange ailment that recently claimed 20 lives in Okpeilo-Otukpa community in Ogbadibo Local Government Area [LGA] of Benue State was yellow fever. The commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs Ngunan Addingi who made the confirmation in Makurdi while briefing reporters at the end of the weekly State Executive Council, EXCO, meeting presided over by governor Samuel Ortom, explained that the blood samples taken to the