The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says it has confirmed sixteen new cases of Lassa fever from five states in Nigeria.
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday, while giving an update about the disease and efforts by the centre.
He said that the sixteen new cases have now brought the number of confirmed cases to five hundred and twenty-six out of the two thousand and thirty-four suspected cases since January first in twenty-one states.
He also said that a total of one hundred and twenty-one deaths had been recorded since the onset of the outbreak.
Dr Ihekweazu said Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, Rivers, Kogi, Enugu, Imo, Delta, Oyo, Kebbi and Cross River states have each recorded at least one confirmed case.
He also confirmed that one health care worker was affected in Plateau state, bringing it to a total of seventeen healthcare workers in seven states since the outbreak of the disease.
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