Nigeria's minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu just raised the alarm that Lassa Fever has killed 40people and hospitalized 397...of those killed are 2 Medical doctors and 6Nurses!
And all these in less than 2months.
Lassa fever could be caused by consuming food or drinks / anything a virus-laden rat's urinated on.
Explaining the rapid rate at which this deadly disease is spreading across the country, Dr Shola Ajayi of Diamond Crest Hospital states, “Lassa fever is a disease that occurs often in the dry season because dust particles from dead rats which carry this virus are more mobile making it easy for people to inhale it.”
He further said that people may become infected through person-to-person contact with virus in the blood, tissue, secretions, or excretions of an individual infected with the lassa virus, eating food contaminated with rat excretions as well as using contaminated needles or other medical equipment.
Nigerian's drinking Gari raw are the most affected!
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