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‘106 deaths, 651 Lassa fever cases recorded in 18 states’
The Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode, has said that besides the three persons under surveillance that tested positive to Lassa fever, the 150 persons currently under surveillance, and two others confirmed dead on Tuesday, the virus is “now under check.”
Bode, who made the assertion yesterday, told The Guardian that there are “no new cases of Lassa fever.” He said the affected resident doctor and the two new patients are in stable condition and responding to treatment. He, however, said that the 150 people exposed to the cases are still under surveillance.
Also, a 22-year-old male patient was yesterday reported to have been under medical observation for suspected Lassa fever case at the Ogun State General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta.
The Guardian, August11, 2017
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