Lassa fever: Adamawa govt confirms one death
The state’s Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Professor Abdullahi Isa, made the confirmation while addressing newsmen at the State Secretariat Complex.According to him, “The index case was a 29-year-old woman from Numan local government area who was first seen as a gravid patient in a private health facility here in Yola on 18th January 2020 and referred to FMC Yola on the 21st January 2020. There, she expelled a macerated still birth.
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