Nigeria: Lassa fever in Adamawa State- 5 deaths

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Source: http://www.compassnewspaper.com/ind...hits-adamawa&catid=37:general-news&Itemid=607

Measles outbreak hits Adamawa

Tuesday, 08 March 2011 01:31
Nigerian Compass

BARELY a month after Adamawa State recorded a deadly incidence of Lassa-fever, the state Ministry of Health has again announced an outbreak of severe measles in at least 16 out of the 21 local government areas of the state...

...Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Lawal Hamidu, while speaking to newsmen on the development, confirmed that the three medical doctors affected by the Lassa fever outbreak have since been taken to the National Hospital, Abuja and Arowa Specialist Hospital in Edo State for proper treatment...

 

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Re: Nigeria: Lassa fever in Adamawa State- 1 death

Re: Nigeria: Lassa fever in Adamawa State- 1 death

Source: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/20047-consultant-medical-doctor-dies-of-lassa-fever-in-adamawa

Consultant medical doctor dies of Lassa fever in Adamawa
Written by Wale Akintunde, Yola Wednesday, 06 April 2011

DISASTER struck in Adamawa State, as the outbreak of lassa fever claimed the life of a consultant medical doctor, working at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola.

Two other persons are currently receiving treatment at Irrua Specialist Centre for the Control of Tropical and Infectious Diseases.

Dr Aliyu Danburam, Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, who confirmed the outbreak, however, said that the epidemiological units of the Federal Ministry of Health, and the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, were working round the clock to contain the epidemic.

Dr Danburam said in early March, it was noticed that a few doctors at the medical centre, developed symptoms of viral haemorrhagic fever, after treating a patient. And that since the disease was not common to the environment, thus making the diagnosis difficult, they were referred to the specialist centre for the control of tropical and infectious diseases.

He stated that it was at the specialist centre that it was confirmed that they had lassa fever, adding that the consultant, who was the index patient, eventually died while the two other doctors were still undergoing treatment.

He, however, disclosed that another personnel, a senior laboratory technologist, who died at the same period had cardiac failure and not lassa fever.

Dr Danburam said due to the highly infectious nature of lassa fever, which he said could be catastrophic if not urgently brought under control, the federal epidemiological unit had established a surveillance squad at the medical centre, to screen all cases that could be remotely linked to the outbreak, while adequate medications and equipment were being put in place to meet future challenges.

 

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Re: Nigeria: Lassa fever in Adamawa State- 1 death

Re: Nigeria: Lassa fever in Adamawa State- 1 death

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/33106.html

Lassa fever kills two doctors, three others in Adamawa

Barnabas Manyam, Yola 08/04/2011 01:05:00

No fewer than five persons, including two doctors, have been confirmed dead in an outbreak of Lassa fever in Adamawa State.

The doctors were said to have been infected while treating some patients at the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, the state capital.

The director of the medical centre, Dr. Aliyu Danburam, said the two doctors? remains had since been buried.

The fever has been ravaging the state since March. Many deaths have been recorded...