ALARMING; Lassa Fever & Meningitis Kill 26 Persons Across Nigeria

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The out breaking disease, Lassa fever and cerebro spinal meningitis (CSM) have claimed 26 lives and infected 88 others in 26 states across the country including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its report captioned Week 04 (January 21 – 27, 2019), 77 new cases of the fever were recorded in 13 states including Abuja.

The center noted that there were eleven new deaths in Edo; two in Ondo; one for Benue and also one in Rivers.

A breakdown itemized the tallies as Edo (twenty-four); Ondo (twenty-eight); Ebonyi (five); Bauchi (three); Plateau (five); Taraba (three); Gombe (one); Kaduna (one); Kwara (one); FCT (one); Benue (two), Rivers (one); Kogi (one) and Enugu (one).

Among others Plateau (two); Taraba (one) and Bauchi (one).

According to the NCDC, from January 1 to 27 this year, 538 suspected cases of the ailment were reported in 16 states, with 213 incidents confirmed positive, two probable and 325 negative.

The disease center noted that since the beginning of the 2019 outbreak, there had been 42 deaths in total across the country.

It said 16 states (Edo , Ondo, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, Adamawa and Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, Rivers Kogi and Enugu) had recorded at least an incident of the disease.