Tag: Lassa Fever
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Ondo, Edo lead as NCDC announces new Lassa fever cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the states of Ondo and Edo are leading the country’s Lassa fever cases as it announces five additional cases in seven days, from Aug.15 to Aug. 21, 2022. The NCDC via its official website on Monday said that the two states accounted for 57 per cent of…
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Lassa Fever: Death toll on the increase in Nigeria – NCDC
The latest report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has shown that Lassa fever has killed 59 Nigerians since the beginning of the year (six weeks) in thirteen states of the country as of February 13, 2022. Furthermore, in one week (between February 7 to 13, 2022) eleven (11) people have been killed…
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Lassa fever: NCDC registers 40 deaths, four health workers infected in January
T he Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), registered 40 Lassa fever-related deaths in January, adding that four health workers were also infected following the latest outbreak of Lassa fever in the country. The NCDC, via its verified website, made this known on Sunday morning
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Sad! How two top gynaecologists died due to complications of Lassa fever in Nasarawa
Sad! How two top gynaecologists died due to complications of Lassa fever in Nasarawa
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39 persons die of lassa fever in Bauchi
The Bauchi State Government says 39 people have lost their lives to Lassa fever in the state since January. Dr Aliyu Maigoro, Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, disclosed this at a news conference in Bauchi on Wednesday. He revealed that due to the timely and massive intervention by the state governor, Bala Mohammad, the only…
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Emergency phase for Lassa Fever outbreak now over – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared the emergency phase of the 2020 Lassa fever outbreak, over. This, according to the agency, follows a successive decline in cases below the emergency threshold, and an epidemiological review carried out by it (NCDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). On January 24, 2020, the NCDC…
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188 Nigerians die of Lassa fever in three months – NCDC
Nigeria is paying more attention to Coronavirus, but a deadlier Lassa Fever has killed 188 Nigerians within three months. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Thursday revealed that between January 2020 and now 963 cases of Lassa Fever have been confirmed in the country. NCDC added that within the period, the deadly Lassa…
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Lassa fever death toll reaches 185 in Nigeria
Amidst the global coronavirus outbreak, Nigeria has also been battling a Lassa fever outbreak since the beginning of the year with 951 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection. As of last week, the number of deaths from the fever was 176, meaning nine people died from it within the week. NCDC said there was a decline…
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Death toll from Lassa fever outbreak hits 193
The death toll from the Lassa fean outbreak of Lassa fever has risen to 173, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said. The NCDC said that this represents a Case Fatality Rate (CFR), of 18.9 per cent. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, told News Agency of Nigeria, on Friday in Abuja, while…