The federal government says it will launch a national deratisation framework to tackle the occurrence of Lassa fever in states that experience consistent annual outbreaks.
The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, said this on Monday in Abuja at a news conference on the outbreak of Acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF), suspected to be Lassa Fever, at 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna.
The briefing was tagged “Health pillar towards mitigation, prevention and control of Lassa Fever in Nigeria”.
