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 The Lagos state Ministry of Health has refuted media reports alleging that two deaths attributed to meningitis have been recorded in the city of Lagos   

  Vanguard reports that the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, while reviewing the activities of the state government with regards to curtailing and controlling the spread of the meningitis epidemic in press statement dismissed the report as false, capable of causing undue panic among the citizenry.



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