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 The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has started a Lassa fever enlightenment campaign in five local government areas in Anambra state, believed to be directly or indirectly affected by the disease. The enlightenment campaign which is in order to educate the people on how to avoid contracting the disease, is following the recent outbreak of Lassa fever that claimed three ...

In order to exterminate rodents and minimize any possibility of Lassa fever in the Federal Capital Territory, the FCT Administration has concluded plans to fumigate the entire Territory. The FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello, made this disclosure on Friday through his media team during an interactive session with members of the FCT Press Corps in Abuja. Mr. Bello said that the ...

The Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, on Monday said that it had killed no fewer than 4,400 rats at six major markets in the state under its de-rat market programme. Its president, Samuel Akingbehin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his association carried out the exercise at Onigbongbo, Oshodi, Oke-Odo, Ikotun Idanwo, Ojuwoye and ...

You might not know it but more than 41 Nigerians are reported to have been dead following the outbreak of Lassa fever. The death toll has exceeded the figure recorded during the outbreak of the Ebola Virus in the country two years ago. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus ...