4 siblings die from suspected diphtheria A family in Kano State's Hotoron Yan Dodo community is mourning the tragic loss of four of their five children to a strange illness within a two-week period. The children's father, Malam Yusuf Maitama, shared the devastating story of how the siblings fell ill one after the other. Maitama described the symptoms, fever, sore throat, nasal discharge, and a white membrane in the throat—which were later confirmed by doctors to be classic signs of diphtheria. The youngest child, a girl under five, was the first to...