….Bauchi, Ondo, Taraba, Edo, Benue account for 84% of infections By Chioma Obinna ABUJA — Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 204 lives in 2026, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, warned that delayed hospital visits, poor health-seeking behaviour and increasing infections among healthcare workers were worsening the disease burden across […]
May 29, 2026
Lassa fever
….Bauchi, Ondo, Taraba, Edo, Benue account for 84% of infections
By Chioma Obinna
ABUJA — Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 204 lives in 2026, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, warned that delayed hospital visits, poor health-seeking behaviour and increasing infections among healthcare workers were worsening the disease burden across the country.
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