The Kaduna State Government has confirmed five deaths following the Lassa fever outbreak in the state
The confirmation was in a report on the outbreak of the disease made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the state’s Commissioner for Health, Hajiya Umma Ahmed, yesterday.
She said that an initial six samples were collected to confirm the outbreak, followed by another six samples from contacts, which were sent to Bayero University, Kano, for analysis, “with a 24-28 hours turnaround time for the result.”
She indicated that the index case was a 26-year-old youth Corps member who took ill on February 9, presented at the 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna, and died on February 20.
“Symptoms presented included fever, headache, convulsion and bleeding. Thereafter, a total of 32 suspected cases were line-listed and samples collected. Six cases were confirmed positive, with five deaths and a male-female ratio of 1:1.
The commissioner said that the state government had so far taken some measures to combat the outbreak of the disease.
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Too bad