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By Nigeria Health Watch | January 25, 2010

GUINEA WORM eliminated in Nigeria?

I still remember my assignment in my MPH class. We were asked to do a presentation to the class on a common public health problem in our countries. I did one on Guinea worm. Having lived in Enugu for several years, a few kilometres from the epicenter in Nigeria in Ebonyi State, the images were very present in […]

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