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AllAfrica.com
April 12, 2018
"We have had the largest outbreak of Lassa Fever in Nigeria's history in the first quater of this year," Chikwe acknowledged. He said: "Unlike Ebola, there is no magic bullet for Lassa fever," adding "It is endemic in our environment and as long as there is rat, we will always have cases of Lassa.".
Times LIVE
April 5, 2018
Lassa fever belongs to the same family as Marburg and Ebola, two deadly viruses that lead to infections with fever, vomiting and in worst-case scenarios, haemorrhagic bleeding. The name comes from the town of Lassa in northern Nigeria where it was first identified in 1969. The virus is spread throughÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
April 4, 2018
When Ebola came to Nigeria, it was a healthcare worker that saved the day. Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh stood the line and helped to save millions of people, not just in Nigeria, but all over the world. In Liberia, it was a young Nursing Assistant, Salome Karwah, who saved the day and helped thousands ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 3, 2018
Develop and implement a comprehensive public health workforce strategy Nigeria has made tremendous progress in response to PHEs-Ebola, Lassa Fever, Meningitis, Cholera etc. but will need additional efforts to: • Formulate, cost, implement, monitor and evaluate a national action plan for health securityÃâà...
Daily Trust
April 2, 2018
The chairperson of National Lassa fever steering committee Oyewale Tomori says Nigeria has “lost respect” for viral haemorrhagic fevers, giving room for Lassa fever epidemics to ... If any of these cases were Ebola, even if you give them back [their relatives' bodies], they wouldn't come near it,” said Tomori.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 28, 2018
“The Ebola outbreak in 2014 taught us a lesson that we must heed – to prevent the huge costs of large scale epidemics we must be alert to new threats and be positioned to ... Community health workers in Nigeria speak to secondary contacts to control the spread of Lassa fever during the 2018 outbreak.
Daily Post Nigeria
March 28, 2018
The United States President, Donald Trump has given thousands of Liberian migrants to the U.S, who have been living in America since the 1991 civil war, one year of grace to leave the United States. The President, in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, stated that he would accord theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 26, 2018
A Nollywood film on Nigeria's resilience during the Ebola virus outbreak in the country was on Friday night screened at Hollywood, Los Angeles, in a collaboration event tagged 'Nollywood in Hollywood'. The screening of the film, 93 DAYS, which held at the world famous Egyptian Theater in Hollywood withÃâà...
NPR
March 19, 2018
Rats carrying the Lassa virus scurry into people's houses, munch on their grain and pee all over the place including the grain. Then people eat the grain and get sick. Lassa, named for the town in Nigeria where it was first discovered in 1969, is a hemorrhagic fever, like Ebola. Some people who get infectedÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 16, 2018
Faith Ireye is one of over 2500 WHO and 390,000 ad hoc personnel supporting polio eradication in Nigeria. On several instances, polio workers have provided frontline support for outbreak response. For example, polio workers were essential to containing the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014. For the LassaÃâà...
Nature.com
March 15, 2018
An unprecedented outbreak of a deadly viral disease in Nigeria is showcasing the newfound might of the country's public-health agency. Reforms put in place since a devastating Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014 have transformed how Nigeria responds to infectious disease — including the currentÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
March 14, 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic.As if Ebola, Zika and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) are not enough to worry about, the WHO has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist newÃâà...
The Standard
March 14, 2018
Nigeria is battling on two fronts against an unprecedented outbreak of Lassa fever, a cousin of Ebola, that has already killed 110 people this year. Even as doctors are grappling to contain the threat, health watchdogs are struggling to understand why the deadly virus has spread so dramatically.
Daily Nation
March 13, 2018
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 353 Lassa cases since January 1, compared with 143 cases for the whole of 2017. But the ... Nigeria is battling on two fronts against an unprecedented outbreak of Lassa fever, a cousin of Ebola, that has already killed 110 people this year.
Science Magazine
March 12, 2018
Such human-to-human transmission is thought to be rare for Lassa, unlike Ebola, except in hospital settings without proper infection control. But “the real rate of human-to-human transmission is unknown,” says Augustin Augier, secretary general of ALIMA in Paris, which has just launched a Lassa feverÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 11, 2018
London: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has put scientists and health workers around the globe on alert for a new and potentially deadly pathogen - Disease X. Each year the Geneva-based organisation, which is charged with monitoring and safeguarding world health, convenes a high-levelÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 10, 2018
... world health, convenes a high-level meeting of senior scientists to list diseases that pose a serious risk of sparking a major international public health emergency. In previous years the list has been confined to known killers such as Lassa fever, which is currently sweeping Nigeria, and Ebola, which killedÃâà...
Vox
March 10, 2018
But first: Yes, there is an outbreak of the deadly, Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in one of the most populous countries on earth. When severe, in about 10 to 20 percent of cases, Lassa does horrible things to the body: It replicates in the internal organs and central nervous system, causing its victims to bleedÃâà...
Science Magazine
March 9, 2018
It took nearly 3 months before blood samples sent to Europe finally identified the disease as Ebola, during which time it was allowed to spread. Similarly, in Nigeria, a lack of rapid diagnostics is making it difficult to get ahead of the current yellow fever outbreak with targeted vaccination. Throughout 2016Ãâà...
Quartz
March 8, 2018
Normally, Lassa is only fatal in an average of 1% of cases, and 15% for those people who have to go to the hospital—a far cry from other hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola, which kills about 70% of those infected. But according to a report (pdf) from Mar. 4, this time the disease is killing 23.8% of those infected.
THISDAY Newspapers
March 1, 2018
For Ebola, which of course is the most exciting amongst the products we mentioned, is the difficulty in carrying out clinical trials. So we have not tested the product clinically. There is a practical problem with testing Ebola. It is one of the few drugs that are tested in an epidemic situation. Ordinarily, it will beÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 28, 2018
Lassa fever has similarities to Ebola, in that severe infections are accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, nose, and gut. But Lassa is both less contagious and less deadly than its infamous counterpart. Around 80 percent of infected people don't develop symptoms at all, and those that do experience theÃâà...
THISDAY Newspapers
February 28, 2018
Nigeria is a busy place and there's been a general urbanisation in the country. Where people go into areas that they did not previously enter is another classic example of risk,” he said. He added that the disease was not as easily transmittable as other viral diseases such as Ebola but he added,Ãâà...
TIME
February 28, 2018
While its neighbors saw skyrocketing numbers of Ebola patients, Nigeria recorded only 20 cases total. Earlier investments by America's signature HIV and AIDS relief program, known as PEPFAR — now marking its 15th year — were central to helping build and strengthen the Nigerian health systemÃâà...
Healio
February 19, 2018
“The high number of Lassa fever cases is concerning. We are observing an unusually high number of cases for this time of year,” Wondimagegnehu Alemu, MD, MPH, WHO Representative to Nigeria, said in a statement. Lassa fever is an acute viral illness that can be difficult to distinguish from Ebola andÃâà...
Live Science
February 16, 2018
But some of the diseases are deadlier than others — namely, the Ebola and Marburg viruses, the NLM says. Many Lassa fever infections, on the other hand, are mild, though some can progress to symptoms that resemble those of Ebola, The New York Times reported. In addition, Live Science reported inÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 5, 2018
According to the minister, Nigeria has dealt with Ebola in 2014; the country reacted strongly and the response was acknowledged by the international community. “The success against Ebola created a situation whereby every other public health challenge in Nigeria to be a tea party. “Therefore assume thatÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 3, 2018
But why is it still killing people, instead of preventing further cases of Lassa fever? Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic disease. It does have a lower case-fatality ratio than things like Ebola, but it's still a fairly bad disease. We have one medicine available that is not very effective, especially when people don'tÃâà...
Vanguard
December 31, 1999
According to organisers, the event was a celebration of Nigeria's growing cinema. The film is a compelling drama of dedication, sacrifice, resilience and survival based on the true story of the people who risked their lives to prevent a catastrophic virus outbreak in Nigeria. Nigeria experienced the Ebola virusÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
They may have none at all. However, in severe cases, it can mimic another deadly haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, causing bleeding through the nose, mouth and other parts of the body. Lassa fever normally has a fatality rate of about one per cent. But in the Nigerian outbreak it is thought to be more than 20%Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Abuja — A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Michael Odighemeh, has announced the discovery of a fuzzy-neutral expert system for detecting Ebola and Lassa fever. Odighemeh is a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering in the Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi State. He made the presentation inÃâà...
Blueprint newspapers Limited (blog)
December 31, 1999
... the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015, which quickly spread across the region. He said: “The 47th session of the authority of Head of State and Government of ECOWAS held in 2015 in Ghana, approved the establishment of RCSDC with headquarters in Nigeria. The agency is setup to strengthen memberÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
Nigeria is tough on diseases. With help from a few partners, it stopped Ebola's spread. It wrestled guinea-worm disease into a headlock, with no new cases since 2013. And it's nearly eradicated the transmission of polio. But now a disease that usually just lurks in the background has roared into headlines.
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