The Lagos State Government previously affirmed two more instances of Lassa fever in the state with one of the casualties officially dead. The advancement brought the quantity of Lassa fever cases in the state to three, including the file case at Ahmaddiya Hospital in Ojokoro part of the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, yesterday said the perished is an a 51-year-old occupant of Ilasan Leki and indigene of Edo State,was at first conceded at Divine Medical Center in Ikoyi on January 12, this year, yet kicked the bucket at 2 pm that day prior to the aftereffect of the lab test that affirmed him sure was received.His cadaver has been kept in the funeral home in a sealed body pack. He said his service had recorded 447 contacts of the affirmed cases and 438 (98 for each penny) of the contacts were being checked. The list case was reacting to treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH),while the second victim,a 36-year-old woman; an indigene of Kogi Statehas since been accepting antiviral prescription.
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