{"id":731488,"date":"2019-10-25T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/25\/lassa-fever-kills-5-in-benue\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:32:17","slug":"lassa-fever-kills-5-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/25\/lassa-fever-kills-5-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lassa Fever Kills 5 In Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_585446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585446\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585446\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tears-as-female-doctor-dies-of-lassa-fever-in-umuahia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-585446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lassa fever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that five persons have died from the outbreak of Lassa fever in Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference in Makurdi, the state capital, the Programs Officer, Risk Communications Desk of NCDC, Hanatu Bello, said that 21 suspected cases of Lassa fever was received from the state out of which eight cases were confirmed while five infected persons have also died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of the year, there have been 21 suspected cases of Lassa fever in Benue State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Lassa Fever Outbreak: 3 \u2018IMPORTANT\u2019 Things You Must Know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight cases were confirmed after laboratory tests and five deaths have so far been recorded,\u201d she said. Bello further disclosed that the State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) is the only medical facility attending to Lassa fever patients at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>She started further that the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) had already been activated in the state, stressing that the Center was in Benue to respond to the Lassa fever outbreak as well as a strange illness in Okpokwu local government area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lassa fever The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that five persons have died from the outbreak of Lassa fever in Benue State. Speaking at a news conference in Makurdi, the state capital, the Programs Officer, Risk Communications Desk of NCDC, Hanatu Bello, said that 21 suspected cases of Lassa fever was received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lassa Fever Kills 5 In Benue - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/25\/lassa-fever-kills-5-in-benue\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lassa Fever Kills 5 In Benue - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Lassa fever The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that five persons have died from the outbreak of Lassa fever in Benue State. 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