Nigeria: Lassa Fever - Plateau Records 5 Deaths, 17 Confirmed Cases
[Guardian] Plateau has recorded 17 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever with five persons killed, according to Dr Kunden Deyin, the state's health commissioner. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lassa Fever Claims Two Lives in Ebonyi
[Premium Times] Ebonyi State government has confirmed the death of two persons in recent Lassa fever outbreak in the state this year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lassa Fever Kills Four in Plateau
[Premium Times] Four people have died of Lassa fever in Plateau State. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Don't Panic Over Lassa Fever, Centre Urges Nigerians
[Vanguard] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigerians need not panic over the rising cases of Lassa fever because it has initiated measures in response to the disease in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: 4,000 Infected With Lassa Fever Yearly in Nigeria
[This Day] Benin City -A medical practitioner and consultant at Irrua Teaching Hospital, Dr. Abubakar Muhammed, has said that Lassa fever infected 4,000 persons in Nigeria, noting that there was need for more enlightenment on the dangers of the deadly virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Declares Lassa Fever Outbreak, Activates Emergency Response
[Premium Times] Nigeria on Tuesday declared a Lassa Fever outbreak in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Researchers Urged to Develop Lassa Fever Vaccine
[Premium Times] Scientist and researchers have been tasked to intensify their researches towards developing a vaccine that could prevent the spread of Lassa fever across the continent in the nearest possible future. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 17, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Set to Host International Lassa Fever Conference
[Premium Times] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is set to host the first-ever international Lassa fever conference in Nigeria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 15, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigerian, European Scientists Solve 2018 Lassa Fever Puzzle
[Vanguard] Lassa fever is caused by a virus carried in the urine or faeces of infected rats. The virus causes fever, weakness, muscle pain and seizures, and is frequently fatal. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 8, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Understanding Lassa fever
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Source: ScienceNOW - January 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Bhadelia, N. Tags: Medicine, Diseases, Microbiology perspective Source Type: news
Metagenomic sequencing at the epicenter of the Nigeria 2018 Lassa fever outbreak
The 2018 Nigerian Lassa fever season saw the largest ever recorded upsurge of cases, raising concerns over the emergence of a strain with increased transmission rate. To understand the molecular epidemiology of this upsurge, we performed, for the first time at the epicenter of an unfolding outbreak, metagenomic nanopore sequencing directly from patient samples, an approach dictated by the highly variable genome of the target pathogen. Genomic data and phylogenetic reconstructions were communicated immediately to Nigerian authorities and the World Health Organization to inform the public health response. Real-time analysis ...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Kafetzopoulou, L. E., Pullan, S. T., Lemey, P., Suchard, M. A., Ehichioya, D. U., Pahlmann, M., Thielebein, A., Hinzmann, J., Oestereich, L., Wozniak, D. M., Efthymiadis, K., Schachten, D., Koenig, F., Matjeschk, J., Lorenzen, S., Lumley, S., Ighodalo, Y. Tags: Medicine, Diseases, Microbiology reports Source Type: news
Mobile detection of Lassa virus
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Source: ScienceNOW - January 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Ash, C. Tags: twis Source Type: news
Nigeria: Concerns Over Rise in Rat-Borne Infections, Deaths
[Guardian] It is no longer news that rats sparked the ongoing Lassa fever outbreak that has affected over 23 states in Nigeria. Latest reports from the Nigeria Centre Disease Control (NCDC) showed that from January 1 to December 9, 2018, a total of 3276 suspected cases have been reported with 149 deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 27, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New Field Test Discerns Between Ebola and Lookalike Fevers
At the close of the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola crisis, the Paul G. Allen Foundation identified diagnostic gaps as one of the major deficiencies that had contributed to the outbreak’s spread.
“The standard diagnostic tests that exist are very good, but they’re hard to do out in the field in the middle of an outbreak like we saw in West Africa,†said John Connor, a virologist at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL). Instead, samples need to be sent to a facility capable of running the tests, which means it could...
Source: MDDI - December 13, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: IVD Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lassa Fever - Gombe Govt Confirms Death of Four Patients
[Premium Times] The Gombe State Government has confirmed the death of four Lassa fever patients out of the 53 suspected cases recorded in the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 12, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
