The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 674 Lassa fever cases with 127 deaths across 18 states, across 93 local government areas between January and April 6, 2025. In a ...

Related Police kill five suspected kidnappers, arrest three in Delta OPSH arrests ... index of suspicion for Lassa fever. While urging all health facilities in the State, public and private ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has recorded 674 confirmed Lassa Fever cases out of 4,025 suspected cases from January to April 6, 2025, in 18 states across 93 local ...

Lassa fever has claimed five lives in one week from 15 confirmed cases reported across six states and 11 Local Government Areas (LGAs), according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

Lassa fever is a viral disease spread by rats. It mainly affects people in parts of West Africa, where there are about 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and about 5,000 deaths from it each year.

AN OUTBREAK of horrifying 'rat fever' has infected 3,700 people and killed 122 since the start of the year. Lassa fever - spread by infected rodents - is tearing through Nigeria, with health ...

A 25-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), has reportedly died of Lassa fever at a secondary health facility in ljebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. DAILY POST ...

Death toll from Lassa fever has risen to 127, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). This information was disclosed in a situation report released on Tuesday.

Others are Gombe (seven), Benue (four), Nasarawa (four), Kaduna (two), Enugu (one), Delta (one), Cross River (one), and Ogun (one). Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic fever caused by the ...

The report partly read, “In week 14, the number of new confirmed cases increased from 14 in epi week 13, of 2025 to 15. These were reported in Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, Ebonyi, and Gombe States ...