Lassa Fever -- Nigeria
The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, 3 probable cases, and 31 deaths.
Adewole, who made this known at the Emergency National Council of Health in Abuja on [Mon 5 Feb 2017], said that in 2018 alone, Nigeria recorded 77 cases of Lassa fever.
According to him, the cases were in Bauchi, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, Benue, Kogi, Ebonyi, Rivers, Imo, Anambra, Edo, Delta, Ondo, Osun,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5608967&promed&0
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