{"id":613783,"date":"2026-09-12T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/613783\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:34:10","slug":"nigeria-reports-more-than-10000-diphtheria-cases-to-date-in-2026-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/613783\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria reports more than 10,000 diphtheria cases to date in 2026: NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to  Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) Director General, Dr. Gidado Idris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ouBzK-zY4Qc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking to media<\/a> in Abuja recently, the country has recorded more than 10,000 cases of the vaccine-preventable disease, diphtheria.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!CDqN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3abf074-d81c-4ee6-972d-0f006ac3cd02_1456x1092.webp\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/a3abf074-d81c-4ee6-972d-0f006ac3cd02_1456.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1092\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/a3abf074-d81c-4ee6-972d-0f006ac3cd02_1456x1092.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:170536,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/215343567?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3abf074-d81c-4ee6-972d-0f006ac3cd02_1456x1092.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Image\/Robert Herriman<\/p>\n<p>Officials report that eight state account for 98 percent of the confirmed cases &#8211; Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Borno, Bauchi, Plateau, Sokoto and Zamfara.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC says low vaccination coverage in children accounts for the bulk of the burden.<\/p>\n<p>The data suggests that Nigeria is not dealing with a single outbreak that suddenly appeared in 2026. It is confronting a persistent immunity gap that has allowed diphtheria transmission to continue, particularly in parts of northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>WHO\u2019s regional assessment shows that Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/DON588\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recorded 15,273<\/a> confirmed diphtheria cases in 2025, resulting in 872 deaths. More than 95 per cent of those confirmed cases were reported from five states: Kano, Borno, Bauchi, Katsina and Yobe.<\/p>\n<p>If you like the reporting on Outbreak News Today, please consider a paid subscription for $5\/month or $30 a year. Help support the cause of this niche journalism. It is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) Director General, Dr. Gidado Idris, speaking to media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-613783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}