The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country located on the western coast of Africa. Nigeria has 36 states with Abuja as the federal capital territory and has more than five hundred ethnic groups. Nigeria gained independence on 1 October 1960 from the United Kingdom (World Population Review, 2013). The color of the Nigerian flag is green, white green; the color green represents the nation's forests and abundant natural wealth, while the color white represents peace and unity (CIA World Fact Book, 2014). According to the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria, the total population of Nigerian citizens is approximately 166.2 million people. In 1960, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom, Nigeria had a population of approximately 45.2 million people. The population of Nigeria represents approximately 2.5% of the entire earth's population, that is, 1 in 43 people in (the) world call Nigeria their place (home). Nigeria's population is expected to surpass that of the United States by the year 2045. Nigeria's official language is English, but the country has multiple languages. The most widespread and common non-English languages ​​are Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo languages. In 2009, a study stated that 50.4% of the population was Muslim while the rest were Christian and approximately 1.4% of the population practiced another religion (World Population Review, 2013). The total average age is 18.2 years, 18.1 years for men and 18.3 years for women, the population growth rate is 2.47% with a birth rate and death rate respectively of 38.03 births/1,000 inhabitants and 13.16 deaths/1,000 inhabitants. The total infant mortality rate is 72.97 deaths/1,000 live births with 77.98 deaths/1,000 live births in males and 67.66 deaths/1,000 live births. Life expectancy at birth for males is... middle of paper... is dengue fever (Ehizibolo, 2011). schistosomiasis, meningococcal meningitis, cholera and HIV/AIDS among others. Some of these diseases are zoonotic, that is, they are transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans, examples are anthrax, brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, to name a few. Zoonotic agents can be viruses, bacteria or fungi and constitute at least 61% of all human pathogens (World Health Organization (WHO), 2006). Anthrax is caused by a bacterium called Bacillus anthracis, brucellosis is also caused by various bacteria from the Brucella genus, rabies is caused by a virus (Ehizibolo, 2011). Malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever are caused by mosquitoes (American Mosquito Control Association, (AMCA) 2013). Malaria fever is caused by the Anopheles mosquito, a vector that carries the malaria parasite from one person to another (Boskey, 2014).