Lassa Fever Kills 80 in Nigeria - NCDC - Confirms 434 Cases from January- December, 2021
Daily Rendezvous The NCDC has confirmed that about 80 persons of the 434 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever in Nigeria have died. This means that the homorrhaging disease has about 18% mortality rate. NCDC says, since January 2021, a total of 434 confirmed cases with 80 deaths have been reported from seventeen (17) States and sixty-three (63) Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria. This contained in a press statement issued by the NCDC and made available to Newsmen, Wednesday. The NCDC says it has intensified activities for Lassa fever surveillance and response following outbreaks of cases in Nigeria. The Center for Disease Control called on Nigerians to maintain a high level of environmental sanitation, dispose waste properly and to keep food stuffs like rice, beans, garri, maize, corn/maize, etc in a tigtly closed containers. The statement reads, "On the 8th of December 2021, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was notified of the death of two p...