Lassa fever

ABUJA – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday March 11, confirmed  there is a decline in number of new cases of Lassa fever in Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer of the Centre, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this…

 NCDC reviews outbreak The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported a decrease in the number of Lassa fever cases reported weekly in the country. This is following the intensive response to the Lassa fever…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up response to the Lassa fever outbreaks in states across Nigeria to strengthen rapid containment of the disease.  To this end, the organization  is mobilizing experts to intervene in…

Activates emergency response ABUJA - The Federal Government has declared Lassa fever outbreak in parts of the country. Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday, January 22,  said 60 cases of the disease…

For the first time during an ongoing Lassa fever outbreak, scientists have used rapid, portable genomic sequencing technology to identify viruses without prior knowledge of the cause of disease. This enabled researchers to allay…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday released an update on ravaging Lassa fever in different states in Nigeria, revealing that no fewer than 90 deaths were recorded between January 1 and February 25, 2018. A press…

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has ordered the immediate release of N100 million as first tranche payment for the procurement of equipment to fight Lassa fever. Obaseki said the fund would be used to purchase four dialysis machines,…

16 persons in Nigeria have died of Lassa fever disease between January 1 and 21, 2018, Federal Government said on Wednesday. In a statement made available to Nigeria Health Online by Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, said 107…

… 2 doctors, 1 patient dead The Nigeria  Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the outbreak of Lassa fever in Ebonyi State. The centre also confirmed  the death of two doctors and a patient out of the four cases reported on…

LUTH confirms 3 cases on admission, says they are responding to treatment The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Chris Bode, today confirmed that three out of the 100 people  on surveillance,…