Lagos State Records First Instance Of Lassa Fever

The Lagos state government says the state has recorded its first instance of Lassa fever....
 In an announcement discharged on Wednesday February nineteenth, the state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, affirmed that a patient is presently in separation at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. 

Abayomi approached occupants to be quiet and not freeze as the state government in a joint effort with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, will do everything conceivable to control the spread of the ailment in the state. 

"The Ministry of Health through Epidemiology, Biosecurity and Global Health Directorate is as of now doing 'contact following' to decide the individuals who may have been contaminated in accordance with worldwide models while we meat up our other reconnaissance systems." 

The Commissioner focused on the requirement for individuals from people in general to guarantee and keep up a satisfactory individual cleanliness and natural sanitation consistently as a major aspect of counteraction and control measures against the spread of the sickness in the state. 

"Individuals from people in general are additionally encouraged to keep away from contact with rodents, to consistently cover their nourishment and water appropriately, cook all their nourishment altogether, just as square all gaps in the septic tanks and gaps through which rodents can go into the house and clear rodent safehouses inside the premises. "Separation wards have been set up to oversee suspected and affirmed cases, drugs, and different materials have additionally been prepositioned at assigned offices while wellbeing laborers have been set on red alarm and network sharpening exercises increased" the chief said 

Abayomi noticed that the counteraction and control of the ailment stayed a common obligation of all residents through the recognition of the most noteworthy potential guidelines of individual and network cleanliness just as ecological sanitation. 

He asked inhabitants to storage facility hold reject in clean deny sacks or residue canisters with tight-fitting spreads to maintain a strategic distance from pervasion by rodents and rodents; arrange decline appropriately at assigned dump destinations and not into the waste framework and store nourishment things in rat confirmation compartments. 

Lassa fever has been recorded in 19 states now with more than 20 passings recorded up until this point.