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Benin: cases of Lassa fever suspected reported in the north of the country
French.china.org.cn | Updated 26-01-2016
Several suspected cases of Lassa viral haemorrhagic fever, including two deaths and four others under surveillance, have been reported at the Hospital of St Martin in Papan? in the commune of Tchaourou, about 400 km north of Cotonou, was told Xinhua Monday from official source.
"We received on Sunday 3rd January at the hospital of St Martin Papan? a lady in an array of headache fever and abdominal pain who died on January 5 and after her death, members of the team guard who took over started to present signs of fever, intense weakness and abdominal pain with diarrhea and vomiting, " told Xinhua Dr. Achille Batonon, Borgou departmental chief health.
He felt that it is an infectious picture, which led the medical team to suspect cases of viral haemorrhagic fevers Lassa.
He said the alert was given when a sick nurse of the hospital of St Martin Papan? died, while four other health workers, including a laboratory technician, another registered nurse and two other State caregivers of the same hospital, presented the same picture.
"We made the blood collection of all these cases that we sent Monday to the national laboratory which will forward them to the WHO reference laboratory in Lagos, Nigeria, will give results no earlier than next Wednesday. It is on the basis of these results that we can say if it is Ebola or Lassa, "he said.
An outbreak of Lassa has been underway since the beginning of the year in 10 states in Nigeria, two of which having a border with the departments of Borgou and Alibori, north of Benin would be affected.
Similarly the last cases of Lassa fever have been reported in Benin in November 2014. At the time, the disease had made nine victims of the 16 cases reported to the hospital St John of God Tangui?ta, and that of St Martin of Papan? in Tchaourou.
Lassa fever is a haemorrhagic fever caused by a Arenaviruses also called Lassa virus. It was first identified in 1969 in the town of Lassa in Borno State in Nigeria. F
Benin: cases of Lassa fever suspected reported in the north of the country
French.china.org.cn | Updated 26-01-2016
Several suspected cases of Lassa viral haemorrhagic fever, including two deaths and four others under surveillance, have been reported at the Hospital of St Martin in Papan? in the commune of Tchaourou, about 400 km north of Cotonou, was told Xinhua Monday from official source.
"We received on Sunday 3rd January at the hospital of St Martin Papan? a lady in an array of headache fever and abdominal pain who died on January 5 and after her death, members of the team guard who took over started to present signs of fever, intense weakness and abdominal pain with diarrhea and vomiting, " told Xinhua Dr. Achille Batonon, Borgou departmental chief health.
He felt that it is an infectious picture, which led the medical team to suspect cases of viral haemorrhagic fevers Lassa.
He said the alert was given when a sick nurse of the hospital of St Martin Papan? died, while four other health workers, including a laboratory technician, another registered nurse and two other State caregivers of the same hospital, presented the same picture.
"We made the blood collection of all these cases that we sent Monday to the national laboratory which will forward them to the WHO reference laboratory in Lagos, Nigeria, will give results no earlier than next Wednesday. It is on the basis of these results that we can say if it is Ebola or Lassa, "he said.
An outbreak of Lassa has been underway since the beginning of the year in 10 states in Nigeria, two of which having a border with the departments of Borgou and Alibori, north of Benin would be affected.
Similarly the last cases of Lassa fever have been reported in Benin in November 2014. At the time, the disease had made nine victims of the 16 cases reported to the hospital St John of God Tangui?ta, and that of St Martin of Papan? in Tchaourou.
Lassa fever is a haemorrhagic fever caused by a Arenaviruses also called Lassa virus. It was first identified in 1969 in the town of Lassa in Borno State in Nigeria. F
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