.jpg "Nam Sach completed the repair of temporary and dilapidated houses the earliest in the province.")
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.jpg "Hai Duong implements issuance of agricultural land use right certificates")
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said Lassa fever in the country has killed 118 people in the first three months of this year.
NCDC Director-General Jide Idris said that between January and March, there were a total of 645 confirmed cases, with 118 deaths (a fatality rate of 18.3%). The latest cases involved more than 20 health workers in five of Nigeria’s 33 Lassa fever-affected states.
Lassa virus, a rodent pathogen, was first discovered in 1969 in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, causing thousands of deaths over the years, especially in rural areas due to unsanitary food handling.
Despite years of campaigning on how to prevent the disease, sanitation in Nigeria’s impoverished rural areas has not improved significantly enough to stop rats from entering homes and gnawing on food and supplies. Nigeria has recently recorded about 100 deaths from Lassa fever each quarter.
According to the NCDC, treatment centres in Nigeria are understaffed while many patients delay going to health facilities to self-medicate and practice other unorthodox methods that are mostly ineffective.
.jpg "Results of the 2024 Administrative Reform Index of departments, branches, sectors and district-level People's Committees in Hai Duong")
