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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Wednesday 506 Lassa fever cases out of the 2,492 suspected cases of the disease and 95 deaths as of February 23, 2025.
According to the situation report, the hemorrhagic fever for week eight also showed that the disease has spread to 12 states and 70 local government areas with a case fatality ratio of 18.8 percent.
The confirmed cases were reported in Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, Ebonyi, Kogi, Gombe, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, Delta, and Cross River.
Lassa fever, a disease that spreads during the dry season in Nigeria, is an animal-borne or zoonotic, acute viral illness spread by the common African rat, also known as the mastomys rat species.
