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Nigeria 2012: Lassa Fever cases; 112 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 46 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 46 fatalities

Nigeria: FCTA Records Three Suspected Lassa Fever Cases
BY CATHERINE AGBO, 1 MARCH 2012
Comment
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has recorded three suspected Lassa Fever cases since the recent outbreak of the diusease.

Secretary, FCT Health and Human Services, Dr. Demola Onakomaiya, who disclosed this yesterday at a press briefing said the three suspected cases were reported from the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) and National Hospital.

He, however, said the cases had not been confirmed, just as no deaths had been recorded.

Onakomaiya said that that as part of efforts to prevent, control and ensure effective case management, the secretariat had embarked on community sensitisation and mobilisation through health education in markets, motor parks, mosques, churches and other public places as well as prepositioning of personal protective equipment and medical supplies in FCTA health facilities across the territory.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201203010369.html
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 46 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 46 fatalities

Source: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/36942-uch-records-first-case-of-lassa-fever-cmd

UCH records first case of lassa fever - CMD
Written by By Sade Oguntola and Adewale Ajayi
Friday, 02 March 2012 00:33


Following the outbreak of lassa fever in 12 states, including Lagos and Ondo states, Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, announced on Thursday, that it had recorded its first case of Lassa fever.

Confirming the diagnosis while briefing journalists on his one year in office, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Temitope Alonge, said two suspected cases were brought to the hospital.

Professor Alonge said one case was confirmed in the hospital while the second suspected case was discovered to be negative after clinical test...
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

Nigeria: Tackling the Lassa Fever Epidemic
8 MARCH 2012
Comment
43 years after the first case of Lassa fever was recorded, the country is still grappling with the virus that is transmitted by hairless tailed bush rats that abound in the country. With more than 40 lives already lost and over 400 others infected this year alone, Olaolu Olusina examines the inadequate surveillance system and lacklustre response to the killer virus which is responsible for some 5,000 deaths every year

Nigerians were indeed jolted when the news of a fresh outbreak of Lassa fever was broken by the Federal Ministry of Health about seven weeks ago. Many were further worried at the revelation that the disease, which had spread into 12 states including Edo, Taraba, Borno, Gombe, Yobe, Plateau, Nassarawa, Ebonyi, Ondo, Rivers, Anambra and Lagos States, was being transmitted through a species of bush rats.

At the last count, the government disclosed that hospital records showed that over 40 lives had been lost to the disease which had assumed epidemic proportions with over 400 persons already infected. Edo and Taraba topped the list of states with the highest casualty figures while about 50 million Nigerians are believed to be at risk from the disease which is even killing doctors and nurses.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201203091015.html
 
Borno, Nigeria records first case of lassa fever

Borno, Nigeria records first case of lassa fever

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/newsextra/38136-borno-records-first-case-of-lassa-fever.html
Borno records first case of lassa fever
By Our Reporter 29/02/2012 00:00:00

Borno State has recorded its first case of Lassa fever, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Salam Anas-Kolo, has said.

Anas-Kolo told newsmen in Maiduguri that a middle-aged man had died of the disease on February 21.

?We have recorded the first case of Lassa fever in the state. Last Tuesday, a middle-aged man was afflicted by the disease and he died a few hours later at the Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri, after doctors tried to save his life but to no avail,? she said...
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Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

Lassa Fever Spreads To 16 States, Says Health Minister

Fri, 16/03/2012 - 6:44pm | OUR CORRESPODENT News Health



The Minister for Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that the Lassa fever epidemic has so far spread to 16 states across the federation.

Chukwu said this on Friday in Umuahia when he accompanied the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, to the launch of Pro-Vitamin A cassava varieties at the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike.

Speaking with newsmen, he said that the scourge was not strange in Nigeria, pointing out that ``Edo State has long been experiencing it.??

According to him, ''what we are witnessing now is the outbreak of the epidemic in some other parts of the country.??

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http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/1...r_spreads_16_states_says_health_minister.html
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 51 fatalities

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Lassa Fever
As at 16th March 2012 a total of 610 suspected Lassa fever cases, 104 Laboratory confirmed with 69 deaths (CFR 11.3%)have been recorded in 18 States (Table 1).In the reporting week 10 (2012), 81 suspected cases of Lassa fever, 6 Laboratory confirmed with 14 deaths (CFR, 17.3%) were recorded with Abia and Bauchi states being the newest States.
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Nigeria Lassa fever.PNG
http://www.fmh.gov.ng/images/stories/documents/WeeklyEpidemiologyReport16th_March_2012.pdf
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 72 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 72 fatalities

Weekly Updates on Epidemics in Nigeria: as at 30th March, 2012
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 12:24
Federal Ministry of Health Weekly Epidemiology Report a total of 714 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been reported from 19 States as at 23 rd March 2012 with 110 Laboratory confirmed and 75 deaths (CFR 10.5%).
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http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php/com...on-epidemics-in-nigeria-as-at-30th-march-2012
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Lassa fever claims 3 in Nasarawa

Written by Umar Muhammed, Lafia
Thursday, 05 April 2012

NO fewer than three persons have lost their lives in Nasarawa State as a result of lassa fever outbreak in Lafia, Obi and Awe local government areas of the state.

Confirming the incident to journalists after kicking-off the distribution of relief materials to the three affected local governments in the state, which were brought by the Nasarawa State Red Cross Society in conjunction with the International Community of Red Cross Society, on Wednesday, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Emmanuel Akabe, said though one person lost his life but the remaining two died because they could not get their blood specimen from the lab, saying their death could be probably as a result of the disease.
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http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/38807-lassa-fever-claims-3-in-nasarawa
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Nigeria: Nasarawa Records 12 Cases of Lassa Fever
BY HIR JOSEPH, 6 APRIL 2012

Lafia ? The Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe has said that 12 cases of Lassa fever have been recorded in the state between December 2011 and now.

"About 12 cases are confirmed. One case of death has also been confirmed. The two other suspected cases of deaths were unconfirmed. They died before we could get their blood samples for laboratory tests", he said.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201204060298.html
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 75 fatalities

Weekly Updates on Epidemics in Nigeria: as at 13th April, 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:57
Federal Ministry of Health Weekly Epidemiology Report indicates that a total of 818 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been reported from 19 States as at 13th April 2012 with 131 Laboratory confirmed and 84 deaths (CFR 10.3%).
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http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php/com...on-epidemics-in-nigeria-as-at-13th-april-2012
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 84 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 84 fatalities

Weekly Updates on Epidemics in Nigeria: as at 20th April, 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:00
Federal Ministry of Health Weekly Epidemiology Report indicates that a total of 855 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been reported from 21 States as at 20th April 2012 with 136 Laboratory confirmed and 87 deaths (CFR 10.2%).
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http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php/com...on-epidemics-in-nigeria-as-at-20th-april-2012
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 87 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 87 fatalities

Lassa fever update as at 27th April 2012

1.1. As at 27th April 2012 a total of 859 suspected Lassa fever cases, 139 Laboratory confirmed with 88 deaths
(CFR 10.2%) have been recorded from 32 LGA in 21 States (Figure 1 & 2).
1.2. In the reporting week 16 (2012), 4 suspected cases of Lassa fever, 1death (CFR 25%) with 3
Laboratory confirmed were recorded from 2 States namely Edo and Bauchi States (Table 1)
1.3. FMOH has:
1.3.1. Distributed Ribavirin injections and tablets to all affected states.
1.3.2. Sent out Outbreak Investigation and Control Teams from FMOH to Lagos, Rivers & Delta (5-
9th Dec 11); Rivers (3-8th January, 2012); Ebonyi, Plateau, Nasarawa (17-21st January,
2012) & Taraba (5-9 Feb, 2012).
1.3.3. Carried out clinician and other health workers sensitization and training in the States visited.
1.4 The Lassa Fever Stakeholders Forum of Nigeria held an emergency meeting on the 14th
February, 2012 to map out strategies for the prevention and containment of the disease.
1.5 Proposals to conduct physicians and other health workers training/sensitization and public
Enlightenment campaign in the 19 Lassa fever affected States has been submitted to the PSH
for approval on 22nd March, 2012 (still awaiting the approval).
1.6 Proposal for the prepositioning of Ribavirin injections and tablets to all teaching hospitals,
FMC, general hospitals and States MOH across the country has since been submitted for
approval.
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Lassa.PNG
http://www.fmh.gov.ng/images/stories/documents/WeeklyEpidemiologyReport_FMOH_29th_April_2012.pdf
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 92 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 92 fatalities

As can be seen from the post directly above, the figures reported in the post below are out of date and incorrect. The Nigerian Ministry of Health had produced consistent weekly epidemiological reports until February 2012 at which time reporting became erratic. The MOH website http://www.fmh.gov.ng/ has been gutted, is rarely available and has deleted all archival material. - Ro

87 Die Of Lassa Fever
By julius osahon


BENIN CITY - Eighty seven persons have so far lost their lives out of 855 cases of reported lassa fever cases in the country, just as medical practitioners warned that the deadly disease which is on rampage in Africa is worst than the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Making this disclosure in Benin City, the former Vice Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University and Medical Laboratory Scientist, Prof. Dennis Agbonlahor, urged both federal and state government to take the issue of lassa fever more seriously, even than HIV and AIDS.
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http://nigerianobservernews.com/06072012/news/Other News/othernews5.html
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 92 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 92 fatalities

This is the first official report I've seen from Nigeria since May. It is not posted on the MOH website. I would appreciate it if anyone comes across a link to the full report to post it here. In addition, using the last available official numbers from May 4th (post #36 above), these new figures represent an increase of 67 suspected cases, 4 lab confirmed and 1 fatality in the past two months. Ro


Published Date: 2012-07-14 17:12:30
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Lassa fever - Nigeria (08): update
Archive Number: 20120714.1201872
LASSA FEVER - NIGERIA (08): UPDATE
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A ProMED-mail post
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International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org

Date: Sat 14 Jul 2012

Source: Federal Ministry of Health - Nigeria, Weekly Epidemiology Report (WER-Nigeria, 2012 (Vol. 2: No.26) [edited]





Lassa fever update as at 6th July, 2012


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2.1 - As at 6th July 2012, a total of 933 suspected Lassa fever cases, 147 laboratory confirmed and 93 deaths (CFR 9.97%) were reported from 41 LGAs [local government agencies] in 23 States.

2.2. - In the reporting week 26 (2012), no suspected case was reported in any part of Nigeria while intensive surveillance and case search are ongoing.

2.3. - Adequate quantities of Ribavirin drugs and PPEs [personal protective equipment?] were prepositioned in all affected States.



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Communicated by:

ProMED-mail

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[Since the previous ProMED-mail from Nigeria, dated 9 Jul 2012, this the number of cases has risen by 78 and the number of fatalities by 6 (see: Lassa fever - Nigeria (07): neglected disease 20120709.1195196).



This statement has a less alarmist tone than than the previous report from Nigeria and indicates that no new cases are being detected as a consequence of enhanced surveillance. Furthermore it states that supplies of ribavirin, the only drug known to be effective in treatment of Lassa fever virus infection, are adequate and generally available.



Ribavirin (brand names: Copegus, Rebetol, Ribasphere, Vilona and Virazole) is an anti-viral drug indicated for severe respiratory syncytial virus infection (individually), hepatitis C infection (used in conjunction with peginterferon alfa-2b or peginterferon alfa-2a) and other viral infections. Ribavirin is a prodrug, which when metabolised resembles purine RNA nucleotides. In this form it interferes with RNA metabolism required for viral replication. How it exactly affects viral replication is unknown; many mechanisms have been proposed for this but none of these has been proven to date. Multiple mechanisms may be responsible for its actions. The primary observed serious adverse side-effect of ribavirin is hemolytic anemia, which may worsen preexisting cardiac disease. The mechanism for this effect is unknown. It is dose-dependent and may sometimes be compensated by decreasing dose.



Ribavirin is active against a number of DNA and RNA viruses. It is a member of the nucleoside antimetabolite drugs that interfere with duplication of viral genetic material. Though not effective against all viruses, ribavirin is remarkable as a small molecule for its wide range of activity, including important activities against influenzas, flaviviruses and agents of many viral hemorrhagic fevers including Lassa fever. (See: http://www.news-medical.net/health/Ribavirin-What-is-Ribavirin.aspx.)



The HealthMap interactive map of Nigeria is available at: http://healthmap.org/r/1qG. - Mod.CP]

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http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20120714.1201872
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 93 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 93 fatalities

UCH records three suspected cases of lassa fever
By Bisi Oladele, Ibadan 11 hours ago

The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan yesterday confirmed that it has recorded three suspected cases of lassa fever.
The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the hospital, Dr Jesse Otegbayo, spoke in Ibadan yesterday.
According to him, the hospital received three suspected cases of the deadly and highly contagious fever but that only one was confirmed as lassa.
He said the patient, who was brought to the hospital from an area within Ibadan metropolis, died on August 30.
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http://www.thenationonlineng.net/20...rds-three-suspected-cases-of-lassa-fever.html

Most recent figures available for Lassa in Nigeria;
As at 3rd August 2012, a total of 934 suspected cases of Lassa fever with 147 laboratory-confirmed and 93 deaths (CFR 9.97%) were reported from 24 States. Between weeks 1- 30 2012, 340 suspected cases of Cholera and 4 deaths (CFR 1.18%) were reported, while for Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), a total of 951 suspected cases with 13 laboratory-confirmed and 57 deaths (CFR 5.99%) were reported.
http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php?opt...ogy-report-update-week-30s-at-3rd-august-2012
 
Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 93 fatalities

Re: Nigeria: Lassa Fever cases; 93 fatalities

Nigeria: The Onslaught of Lassa Fever
BY JUDD-LEONARD OKAFOR, 22 JANUARY 2013

Lassa fever has threatened Nigeria for 44 straight years--and killed hundreds of people. Yet it continues to march on.

This year, at least three deaths--among them a healthworker--have been reported in Benue, prompting despatch of monitoring teams. Ondo will also be covered by teams investigating reported outbreaks.

The same outbreak was reported at the start of 2012, and it spread fast: in three months, the fever spread to 19 states. At least 623 cases were reported and 70 people died--including three doctors and four nurses, according to epidemiological reports by the federal health ministry.

By last year's end, 1656 cases and 112 deaths would be reported in 23 states. The cases are a steady increase from 2011, which saw 1172 cases and 50 deaths.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201301220684.html
 
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