Katsina confirms new Lassa fever case as death toll rises to three

The Katsina State Government has confirmed a caller lawsuit of Lassa fever, bringing the full fig of caller infections successful the authorities to four, with 3 fatalities already recorded.

An authoritative of the State Primary Health Care Agency, Dr Kabir Sulaiman, disclosed this during a briefing with journalists, noting that the confirmed cases were identified successful Funtua and Dan Musa section authorities areas.

According to him, “Out of the 4 confirmed cases, 3 person unluckily resulted successful deaths, portion the lone surviving patient, a female, is related to 1 of the deceased.”

Health authorities revealed that 44 individuals who had interaction with the infected patients were promptly traced and placed nether observation.
“Thirty-seven of those identified person since been discharged aft completing the monitoring period,” a elder authoritative stated.

The remaining diligent is presently receiving attraction astatine the Infectious Diseases Centre of the Federal Teaching Hospital successful Katsina and is said to beryllium responding positively.

Officials emphasised that containment measures person been activated to forestall further dispersed of the disease.
“The authorities has enactment successful spot due strategies to curb transmission and safeguard nationalist health,” the bureau added.

Medical experts person urged residents to ma...