Tag: Lassa Fever

Lassa fever kills 35 in Taraba state

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa2

The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jalingo, Taraba State, has confirmed that 35 patients have died from Lassa fever. According to the Head of Clinical Services at the centre, Dr. Suleiman Abubakar Kirim, 226 patients with suspected Lassa fever were admitted to the facility. He said after laboratory tests were conducted, 95 patients were confirmed positive for the disease. Of that number, 35 died, while 20 have been successfully treated and discharged. Dr. Kirim also disclosed that three staff members of the centre – a medical doctor, a nurse and a…

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Lassa Fever: NCDC confirms 318 cases, 70 deaths

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa2

…22% fatality rate  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said with 318 confirmed cases and 70 deaths, the case fatality rate (CFR) now stands at 22%, raising urgent questions about early detection, treatment access, and state-level preparedness in the country’s most affected areas. Director-General of NCDC, Jide Idris, who disclosed this on Friday in Abuja, during a press briefing on Lassa fever, noted that only five states account for 91% of confirmed cases, adding that just 10 local government areas (LGAs) are responsible for 68%. He…

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Lassa fever kills 166, spreads across 21 states – NCDC

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa fever

Nigeria has recorded 166 deaths from Lassa fever in 2025, as the outbreak continues to spread across 21 states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC), has confirmed. The agency, in its epidemiological week 37 report, said the current case fatality rate of 18.5% is higher than the 16.9% reported during the same period last year. So far in 2025, Nigeria has logged 7,673 suspected cases, of which 895 were confirmed and seven classified as probable. These were reported across 106 local government areas in 21 states. For…

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Lassa fever, meningitis kill 366 in 24 states – NCDC

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC), has reported a total of 366 deaths from Lassa fever and meningitis in the country, highlighting the continued public health challenge posed by these diseases. From January 1 to May 18, 2025, the NCDC confirmed 733 cases of Lassa fever from 5,118 suspected infections across 18 states and 95 local government areas. Within the same period, the country recorded 141 Lassa fever-related deaths, representing a case fatality rate of 19.2 percent. Separately, between September 30, 2024, and April 6, 2025, the…

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Lassa Fever: 174 deaths recorded from 1,025 confirmed cases – NOA

Aminu Imam
Lassa Fever

The National Orientation Agency, (NOA), has disclosed that the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)s Epidemiological Report of Week-41 indicates that from October 2024 to date, 1,025 cases of Lassa Fever were confirmed across 28 States of the federation, with  174 deaths, representing a fatality ratio of 17%. The NOA Director-General, Dr. Lanre Onilu, disclosed this in a press briefing to mark the commencement of the organisations nationwide campaign to create awareness of the preventable measures that will help nip in the bud the infection and spread of Lassa Fever.…

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Lassa fever: NCDC records 832 cases, 152 deaths in four months

Aminu Imam
Lassa fever

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), says it recorded 5,669 suspected Lassa fever cases and 152 deaths, with a Case Fatality Rate of 18.3 percent. According to the ‘Lassa Fever Situation Report’ posted on its website on Monday, the NCDC said 832 cases were confirmed from the suspected cases from 27 states across 126 local government areas from January to April 14, 2024. According to the World Health Organisation, (WHO), Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus, a member of the…

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Lassa fever Outbreak: ‘Traders importing live rats from Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi’ – Benue Govt.

Aminu Imam

The Benue State government has raised the alarm over the importation of live rats into the State, warning that individuals behind the trade are exposing its people to Lassa fever outbreak.   The State Epidemiologist, Dr. Terungwa Ngishe expressed the worry while speaking at a one-day ‘Sensitisation Engagement on Anti-microbial Resistance’, (AMR), and the need for behavioural change, organised in Makurdi by the Benue State office of ‘One Health’.   Dr. Ngishe pointed out that people importing rats into Benue were taking advantage of the fact that rat is a delicacy in…

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Nigeria records 244 cases of Lassa fever, 37 deaths – NCDC

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) registered 244 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever in 16 states and the FCT as of Jan. 22. The Centre’s Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, told newsmen yesterday, in Abuja, that the centre also recorded 37 deaths, a case-fatality rate of 15.1 percent. The Lassa fever infections were recorded in Ondo State (90); Edo (89); Bauchi (13); Taraba (10); Benue (9); Ebonyi (9); Nasarawa (7), and Plateau, (5). Others are Kogi (4); Anambra (2); Delta (1); Oyo (1); Adamawa (1); Enugu (1); Imo…

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NCDC issues Lassa fever alert, as death toll hits 102

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), has issued a warning over Lassa fever cases, which it says has risen to 4,632, with 102 deaths. The NCDC, in its latest advisory on Monday, announced the possibility of Lassa fever presenting malaria-like symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat, general body weakness, cough among others. The centre said it has sent letters to states on the dangers of Lassa fever and the symptoms to look out for. Since the last outbreak of the disease in 2016, the agency observed that there…

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More Lassa Fever deaths recorded in Bauchi, Ebonyi

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NDDC) has announced that Bauchi and Ebonyi states recorded new deaths from Lassa fever as the nations toll from the disease since the beginning of 2021 rises to 92. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest situation report on the outbreak of the disease in the country. According to the data from the report for Week 50, which covered December 13 to 19, three more deaths were reported in the week under review. While Bauchi reported two new fatalities, Ebonyi recorded a new death…

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