important information about lassa fever

2. Case In disease terminology, a case is a person who has a disease and at the same time can spread the disease to people who do not have the disease. A case could either be suspected or confirmed. A suspected case for Lassa fever is characterised by gradual onset of fever, headache, malaise, myalgia, cough, pharyngitis, vomiting and retrosternal pain. On the hand, a confirmed case is a suspected case that is laboratory- confirmed or epidemiologically linked to a laboratory-confirmed case or outbreak. 3. Index/Primary case Index case is the person that first contacts a disease. He is also known as primary case. 4. Primary and secondary contacts A Primary contact is a person that has direct association with a person that has a disease. An example of a primary contact is a Doctor treating a Lassa fever patient. While a secondary contact is a person that has direct contact with the primary contact.

5. Information from the Ministry of Health According to a release by the Ministry of Health recently, in the last 6 weeks, Nigeria has been experiencing Lassa fever (LF) outbreak which has so far affected more than 8 states. The states affected include Bauchi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Edo and Oyo. The total number of suspected cases so far reported is 76 with 35 deaths, and a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 46%. The Ministry of Health laboratories have confirmed 14 cases, indicative of a new episode of Lassa fever outbreak. Information on the Lassa fever outbreak as of Wednesday, January 13 confirmed that a person died as a result of the disease in the National Hospital at Abuja. Previous report was that Lassa fever claimed 41 lives from 93 reported cases in 10 states of the country. The number of the suspected cases also rose from 86 last week to 93 this week. In addition a person died last week in Edo state. 6. Latest information Twelve states have so far been affected. The states affected include Bauchi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Abuja, Lagos and Oyo. Imo state has also recorded reported cases making the states to become thirteen. Information learnt yesterday, Thursday, January 14 had it that a medical doctor died in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital as a result of Lassa fever.

7. Incubation period The incubation period of a disease is the time it takes the disease to manifest and show its different symptoms if someone contacts it. For Lassa fever, the incubation period is 21 days. Therefore, if a person is suspected to have the disease, he will be put in an isolation room for 21 days in order to confirm if he/she has the disease or not. 8. Medical presentation and symptoms of Lassa fever These include: High fever; serious headache; pains in the chest region; dry and sore throat; continuous stooling and vomiting; in severe situations, there is bleeding from the mouth, nose and vagina and then death results in later stages. 9. Preventing the disease/ mode of transmission Rodents and rats are the main vector of the disease. Someone can also be infected from the fluid or blood of an infected person and by shaking hands with people who are seriously infected.

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