The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) confirmed in its latest situation report for Epidemiological ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said the country has recorded 6,640 suspected and 822 confirmed ...

The NCDC says 155 people have died from Lassa fever in 2025, with 822 confirmed cases so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease ...

So far in 2025, Nigeria has recorded 822 confirmed cases of Lassa fever across 21 states and 105 Local Government Areas ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, on Tuesday, said Nigeria has recorded 155 deaths from Lassa fever from January 1 to July 20, 2025.The Case Fatality Rate now stands at 18.9 per ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the country has recorded 6,640 suspected and 822 confirmed cases of Lassa fever ...

Ondo State alone continues to bear the brunt of the outbreak, contributing 32 per cent of all confirmed Lassa fever cases ...

Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic viral infection spread by rats in West Africa, according to Edward Liu, M.D., chief of infectious diseases at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

About 100,000 to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and 5,000 related deaths occur in West Africa each year, according to the CDC. The disease has an overall fatality rate of just 1%, according to the ...

Lassa fever has a fatality rate of about 1% overall, but women who contract the disease late in pregnancy face an 80% chance of losing their child, or dying themselves. ‘New pandemic era’ ...

Lassa fever is not exactly common in the U.K. So if you tell your boss that you can’t make it to work because of Lassa fever, expect some follow-up to occur. The U.K. has had only eight reported ...

Nigeria has recorded 11 new confirmed cases of Lassa fever, bringing the total number of infections to 822 and the death toll to 155, between January 1 and July 20, 2025.The latest data, released ...