Lassa fever outbreak in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has claimed some healthcare providers at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA).

Sources said that two doctors and a nurse died at the weekend while some persons are in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

A hospital source told Ripples Nigeria that “A medical student and a nurse are also receiving treatment at the moment with poor prognostic indices.”

While urging anyone going to the state to be careful, he also advised those presently in the state to employ the universal precautions of infectious viral diseases.
Full details: https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/ebonyi-lassa-fever-resurfaces-claims-2-doctors-1-nurse-others-hospitalised/

What most people don't know, even medical personnel, is that Lassa fever is like malaria: it has never really left. It has always been and will continue to be there in Nigeria until appropriate actions are taken.

Dis lassa fever no want leave ni?

Who are those people that so much like eating rats, abeg make una slow down.

Good save us.Speedy recovery to the afflicted.Meanwhile FETHA management should stop denying the dreadful reality of the Lassa Fever epidemic as Abakaliki is one of the epicentre of the disease.