NIGERIA!!1995/1996 WAS PEAK PERIOD FOR LASSA FEVER
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOS,NIGERIA..
The year 1995/1996 has being described by a key source to
The News office Desk of the E.N.M. Paedia Express Multimedia Group of
Lagos,Nigeria as the year with the highest casualty rate in the attacks by the hemorrhagic
fever, Lassa Fever..
The source lamented the fact that despite the great economic importance of the disease in the global biomass ,she was shocked to
discover that it was not getting the same level of media attention less lethal
disease factors like Covid-19 was generating.
She recalled that as a student of the Ambrose Alli
University in Ekpoma ,Edo State she was an eye witness to how the disease
ravaged the community .
She speaks:"a lot of us did not have school accommodation
and so we lived with the people in
town and during that one year Academic
Staff Union of Universities strike a lot
of people died as we even buried one of our school mates at the time ,augusta
and i could recall that she hailed from irrua"
"You could hardly go a day or whole week without
somebody dying of Lassa Fever in that
area in 1995/1996"
"Augusta's death was rather painful as she was one of
us ,it took place during the strikes and she was already buried but as soon as we had resumed in school back
then we took a quick trip to Irrua to commiserate with her family and then pay
our last respects"
The source hailed the General Hospital in Irrua ,Edo State
which according to her remains the number one centre for the study and research
of Lassa Fever in West Africa,a feat which even the World Health Organization
does not contest at all..
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