Lassa Fever: Anambra registers first case, quarantines patient at FETHA, Ebonyi
A student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Unizik, in Anambra State, has been confirmed the first lassa fever patient in the state.
The Hospital management said the patients’ specimen had been collected and sent to Irruah, Edo state and the result came back positive Addressing reporters yesterday at the Anambra state Health Insurance Agency ASHIA in Awka, Okpala said the state was following the federal government guidelines. “The result of the laboratory testing came out positive for Lassa fever. With this development, the state now has an index case”
“We have constituted four contact tracing teams in different locations for the listing and follow-up management of contacts of the case”
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