Four new cases of Lassa fever have been confirmed in three States, with no new death recorded.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed this in its latest Situation Report on the disease for Week nineteen which covers May sixth to twelfth.
Recent figure shows that two cases were confirmed in Edo and one eac in Ebonyi and Taraba States respectively.
This brings the total number of suspected cases reported from twenty-one States between January first and May twelfth, 2019 to two thousand four hundred and twenty-six.
Of these, five hundred and sixty-nine were confirmed positive, fifteen probable and one thousand eight hundred and forty-two negative, while case fatality ratio in confirmed cases is twenty-two point five per cent.
Since the onset of the 2019 outbreak, there have been one hundred and twenty-eight deaths in confirmed cases.
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