The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it registered seven additional new cases of Lassa fever from Edo, Bauchi and Kogi states.
The centre said this in a statement on its official website on Friday.
It noted that the seven cases were recorded between July 22 and July 28.
NCDC said Edo reported four cases, Bauchi two, while Kogi recorded one with no deaths recorded during the period under review.
It said 163 deaths were, however, reported in 2024, with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 17.0 per cent, lower than the 17.3 per cent recorded during same period in 2023.
The public health agency added that 66 per cent of confirmed cases in 2024 were from Ondo, Edo and Bauchi, while 34 per cent were reported from 25 states.
“In total for 2024, 28 states recorded at least one confirmed case of Lassa fever across 125 local government areas,” it noted.
The agency listed some of the challenges in the fight against Lassa fever to include late presentation of cases leading to increase in CFR and poor health-seeking behaviour due to high cost of treatment, as well as clinical management of the disease.
Others are poor environmental sanitation conditions observed in high-burden communities and poor awareness in communities.
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