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West African Yellow Fever Commission Yaba,Lagos: Image is showing the Tennis Court, Store House, Animal House, Laboratory and Administration Office.

In May 1903, an outbreak of yellow fever threatened the tranquility of Colonial Lagos; cases were reported up to the end of

the year, with a total number of 38 cases, of which 10 had a fatal termination.

During 1913, some 29 cases of yellow fever were notified in Lagos. The first person infected was a European, who had arrived two days before from Abeokuta, where, however, the presence of the disease

had not been previously recorded.

According to the Annual Report of 1914 of the Governor- General of Nigeria, all the cases of yellow fever reported during the year were Europeans, no attacks coming under observation among the native population.

In September 1915, two cases of yellow fever and one death among the native population was recorded.

According to a report in Yellow Fever: Global Status 2010; Historical records of outbreak of Yellow fever in Lagos were between, 1893 to 1894, and 1905-1906.

Nigeria accounted for 90.1% of the world’s yellow fevers cases during 1989 to 1993.

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