The Federal Government said on Tuesday that Lassa fever has claimed
63 lives out of 212 suspected reported from 62 local government areas in
affected states.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole,
confirmed this at the emergency National Council of Health meeting in
Abuja on the outbreak of the disease.
Adewole listed the 17
affected states as Bauchi, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Oyo, Ondo, Edo,
Plateau, Gombe, Nasarawa, Lagos, Delta, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Zamfara and Kogi
as well as the FCT

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