Bungwe la Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) linanena pa July 23 kuti chiwerengero cha 1,506 omwe akukayikira kuti ali ndi diphtheria adanenedwa m'madera 59 a boma m'madera 11 m'dziko lonselo.
Kano (milandu 1,055), Yobe (232), Kaduna (85), Katsina (58) ndi Bauchi (47) akuti, komanso FCT (milandu 18), amawerengera 99.3% ya milandu yonse yomwe akuwakayikira.
Mwa milandu yomwe akuwakayikira, 579, kapena 38.5%, adatsimikizika.Mwa milandu yonse yotsimikizika, anthu 39 afa adanenedwa (chiwopsezo chakufa: 6.7%).
Kuyambira May 2022 mpaka July 2023, National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inanena kuti anthu oposa 4,000 akuwakayikira ndipo 1,534 adatsimikizira kuti ali ndi diphtheria.
Mwa milandu 1,534 yomwe yatsimikiziridwa, 1,257 (81.9%) sanalandire katemera wa diphtheria.
Diphtheria ndi matenda oopsa omwe amayamba chifukwa cha mtundu wotulutsa poizoni wa Corynebacterium diphtheriae.Poizoniyu akhoza kudwalitsa anthu kwambiri.Mabakiteriya a diphtheria amafalikira kuchokera kwa munthu kupita kwa munthu kudzera m'malovu opumira monga kutsokomola kapena kuyetsemula.Anthu amathanso kudwala zilonda kapena zilonda kwa anthu omwe ali ndi diphtheria.
Mabakiteriya akalowa m'njira yopuma, amatha kuyambitsa zilonda zapakhosi, kutentha thupi pang'ono, ndi kutupa kwa khosi.Poizoni wopangidwa ndi mabakiteriyawa amatha kupha minofu yathanzi m'njira yopuma, zomwe zimapangitsa kupuma komanso kumeza.Poizoniyo akalowa m’magazi, angayambitsenso matenda a mtima, mitsempha, ndi impso.Matenda a pakhungu oyambitsidwa ndi B. diphtheriae nthawi zambiri amakhala zilonda zam'mwamba (zironda) ndipo sizimayambitsa matenda oopsa.
Diphtheria yopuma imatha kupha anthu ena.Ngakhale atalandira chithandizo, munthu mmodzi pa anthu 10 alionse amene ali ndi matenda a diphtheria amamwalira.Popanda chithandizo, theka la odwala akhoza kufa ndi matendawa.
Ngati simunalandire katemera wa diphtheria kapena simunalandire katemera wa diphtheria ndipo mwina munapezekapo ndi diphtheria, ndi bwino kuti muyambe kumwa mankhwala a antitoxin ndi maantibayotiki mwamsanga.
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