In Nigeria, the Lassa virus claimed the lives of 127 people in the first week of April. The Nigerian Center for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 674 cases of this disease, resulting in a ...

In Nigeria, the Lassa virus claimed the lives of 127 people in the first week of April. The Nigerian Centre for Disease ...

Nigeria has reported 3,465 suspected cases of Lassa fever between January and March 2025, with 645 confirmed infections and ...

The report further stressed that 18 states have recorded at least one confirmed case across 93 Local Government Areas so far ...

The death toll of the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has risen to 127, public health authorities said. A total of 674 conf ...

Lassa fever - spread by infected rodents - is tearing through Nigeria, with health authorities issuing 'stay at home' warnings as the virus spreads through dozens of states. In it's most recent ...

The death toll in Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has climbed to 127, with 674 confirmed infections from a pool of 4,025 suspected cases since the outbreak began in January 2025, the Nigeria Centre for ...

Lassa fever is caused by the Lassa virus, first identified in 1969 after two missionary nurses died in the town of Lassa, Borno State, Nigeria. The virus is endemic in parts of West Africa ...

A consultant clinical microbiologist at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Dr. Usman Yahaya Umar, has urged Kano residents to take preventive ...

Lassa fever killed 118 people in Nigeria in the first three months of this year, the West African country's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said. The virus, which is carried by ...

ABUJA, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has risen to 127, public health authorities said Tuesday. A total of 674 confirmed cases have been recorded from ...