Tag: Lassa fever
FIND CEO Dr Ifedayo Adetifa to highlight progress in Lassa Fever...
TUE SEPT 09 2025-theGBJournal| FIND CEO Dr Ifedayo Adetifa will speak at the opening session of the 2nd Lassa Fever International Conference today, focusing...
Benue State, WHO expands Lassa Fever response with community-level outreach campaigns...
...WHO continues to support the Government of Nigeria to strengthen surveillance, improve case management, and drive risk communication at national and subnational levels
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Médecins Sans Frontières hands over Lassa fever care in Ebonyi state
...In total, over 230 training sessions for healthcare workers were delivered, and laboratory capacity was strengthened, enabling faster diagnosis
MON JUNE 09 2025-theGBJournal| After seven...
WHO; Stepping up response to curb infectious diseases in Nigeria
...In 2024, the disease has been particularly severe, with 1,059 confirmed cases reported across 28 states, resulting in 175 deaths (16.6% case fatality rate)
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NCDC Nigeria activates Lassa fever emergency operations centre following following a...
TUE. 31 JANUARY, 2023-theGBJournal| The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has activated the national multisectoral Emergency Operations Centre for Lassa Fever...
Nigeria, WHO partners to contain Lassa Fever Outbreak in the country
…Lassa fever is a transmittable disease
THUR 17 MARCH, 2022-theGBJournal| “Contracting Lassa fever was a very bad experience”, says 41 years old Marian Oyinbor,...
NCDC activates Emergency Operations Centre for Lassa Fever response following outbreaks...
WED 26 JAN, 2022-theGBJournal- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated the national multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary Lassa fever Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)...
Lassa fever: Four die of ‘strange’ disease in Benue
FOUR persons have died and 15 others are seriously ill from a strange disease in Oye-Obi, a community in Obi Local Government Area of...
