MEDICAL doctor with Rivers State-owned Braithwait Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMH, Dr. Livy Ijamala, has died from Lassa Fever, bringing to three the number of people killed by the disease in the state. Chairman of the state branch of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Furo Green, disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, saying the late doctor, […]
Read More THE Federal Government has started tracing 35 people, who are believed to have had contact with the Lassa fever patient that died at the National Hospital, Abuja on Wednesday with 15 other people already under surveillance. The death of the 33-year-old brought the total number of Lass fever deaths in the country to 43 and […]
Read More The Ondo State Government said on Tuesday that two people have been killed by Lassa fever in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanyu, said this at a Lassa fever prevention stakeholders’ meeting organised for health workers, religious groups, opinion and traditional leaders in Akure, the state capital. The commissioner said one […]
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The Federal Government will carry out investigations into why there was no report made by Niger State government six months after the outbreak of Lassa fever in the area. The government also said that laboratory analysis of two suspected cases of the disease reported in Rivers State had tested negative. The Minister of Health, Prof. […]
Read More OVER 60 people have been placed under surveillance in Rivers State, following the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. A nursing mother and her two-week-old baby were said to have died on December 30, last year, and January 1, from the contagious disease. Health Commissioner Dr. Theophilous Adangbe told reporters yesterday in Port Harcourt, […]
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