Lassa Fever -- Nigeria
In Nigeria this month [January 2018], 21 people have died from Lassa fever, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday [31 Jan 2018], in the latest outbreak in Africa's most populous nation.
"Since the beginning of 2018, 80 cases have been classified as: 77 confirmed cases, 3 probable cases with 21 deaths," the NCDC said on Twitter.
Cases have been reported in 13 of 36 states, while 10 health care workers had been affected, it added.
Lassa fever belongs to the same
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5600192&promed&0
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