The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed that between January and April 9th, 2023, Nigeria lost 151 people to Lassa disease.
In its most recent epidemiological report published on Thursday, the NCDC stated that the case fatality rate for week 14 was 17.4%, which was lower than the case fatality rate for the same week in 2022, which was similarly put at 19.3%.
The organisation stated that the disease has now spread to 26 states and 101 Local Government Areas, and that 71% of all confirmed cases were reported from the states of Ondo, Edo, and Bauchi, while 29% were reported from the three states that had confirmed cases of Lassa fever.
