Health Worker, Others Infected As Lassa Fever Kills Two In Ondo

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three new cases of Lassa fever in Ondo State, including a health worker with two new deaths.

According to the center, in the reporting week 42, one new healthcare worker was infected in Ondo State and forty-one healthcare workers have been affected since the outbreak of the epidemic in seven states namely Ebonyi (16), Edo (15), Ondo (five), Kogi (two), Nasarawa (one), Taraba (one) and Abia (one) with ten deaths in Ebonyi (five), Kogi (one), Abia (one), Ondo (two) and Edo (one).

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However in the pursuit to keep the country free from further outbreak of the epidemic, Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state, will tomorrow join the Governor-General of Canada, Julie Payette, to inaugurate a new biosecurity laboratory in Lagos to curb any new Ebola outbreak in the state.

The laboratory, planned to be located at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, is aimed to serve as a single repository for all high-concentration pathogens in the state. It would also help to mitigate post-EVD threats and build capacity for prevention, detection and response to the future outbreak.

Also, NCDC, which confirmed two new cases of monkeypox out of 10 new reported cases, noted that it is following up closely with the Ministry of Health in Israel following the report of a confirmed monkeypox case in the country on October 13, 2018, with a travel history from Nigeria.

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