The Lagos State Government has confirmed a case of Lassa fever outbreak in the state, saying the patient has been isolated.


Professor Akin Abayomi, the State Commissioner for Health, who made this known in a statement, said that the patient is currently in isolation ward at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.


He said that the Lagos State government, in active collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control is working assiduously to stem the spread of the disease in the State.


According to him the Ministry of Health, through Epidemiology, Bio-security and Global Health Directorate, is currently carrying out ‘contact tracing’ to determine those who may have been infected in line with the international standards.


Lassa fever has been ravaging in over nineteen States in the Country.

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