Lassa fever

A medical doctor working with the World Health Organization WHO in Benue State Dr Samuel Nyityo has died of lassa fever in the state. Court orders unfreezing of Benue accounts.

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control disclosed this in its weekly.

. To reduce the risk of the spread of Lassa fever the NCDC advised that Nigerians should ensure proper environmental sanitation cover dustbins and dispose of refuse properly store foodstuff like. Lassa fever is a haemorrhagic viral illness caused by contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces. Why Lassa fever can be contracted through sexual intercourse.

Lassa fever is an animal-borne or zoonotic acute viral illness. Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic excessive bleeding illness that is transmitted to humans through contact with food household items contaminated by infected rodents or. Lassa fever presents initially like any other febrile illness such as malaria.

Lassa fever killed 40 infected four health workers in January NCDC. Neighboring countries are also at risk as the animal vector for Lassa virus the multimammate rat Mastomys natalensis is distributed throughout the region. Its symptoms include fever headache sore throat general body weakness cough nausea vomiting diarrhoea muscle pains chest pain and in severe cases unexplainable bleeding from ears eyes nose mouth and other body openings.

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Definitive diagnosis requires testing that is available only in reference laboratories. Lassa fever is difficult to distinguish from other viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola virus disease as well as other diseases that cause fever including malaria shigellosis typhoid fever and yellow fever. The virus is carried in multimammate rats the common soft-furred African rat which female has two rows of breasts.

Nigeria recorded 222 new Lassa fever cases and two new deaths in one week across 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory. It is endemic in parts of West Africa including Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea and Nigeria.

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