LASSA FEVER:THE SICKNESS IS FROM THE DEVIL ,THIS IS THE END TIME BUT GOD ALMIGHTY WILL OVERCOME EVERY SITUATION

Lagos State Government has confirmed the death of another Lassa fever patient in the state.
The state’s commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this at a press conference on Wednesday, said the state had so far recorded 20 patients out of which two people have passed on. Idris, who was joined at the press conference by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said fourteen suspected cases tested negative, while four suspected cases were confirmed positive of Lasssa Fever He added that the ministry has identified 537 contacts of the confirmed cases and 534 which represents 99 percent of the contacts are currently being monitored.
The commissioner said: “The last confirmed case was a 27 years old lady, who travelled to Edo State on December 24, 2015 and returned to Lagos on January 2, 2016.
She became ill on January14, 2016 and received care in one private hospital and three churches before she was referred on January 23, 2016 to Ijede General Hospital with fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and body weakness.
The patient died within a few hours of admission. The case was confirmed as Lassa fever on January 26, 2016.
“The remains of the patient has been kept in the morgue in leak proof body bag.
She is to be buried after due consultation with her family. “Ninety (90) persons have been line-listed as contacts of the last confirmed case as at January 26, 2016 and contact tracing is on-going.”
He said members of the public are being sensitised to note that Lassa fever can be contacted through; ingestion of foods and drinks contaminated by the saliva, urine and faeces of infected rats; catching and preparing infected rats as food; inhaling tiny particles in the air contaminated with infected rat urine or dropping; direct contact with a sick person’s blood or body fluids, through mucous membranes, like eyes, nose or mouth.
According to him, people at greater risk of infection with Lassa fever are families and friends of an infected person in the course of feeding, holding and caring for them as well as the health workers who have attended to infected persons.
In Bauchi State, two people have been confirmed dead from the disease in Wandi and Bundot wards in Dass Local Government Area.
The Director, Primary Health Care, PHC, Dass Local Government Area, Suleiman Abdul Kirfi, revealed this to Journalist Against Polio, JAPs, and other diseases, when they paid him a courtesy call in his office in Dass Local Government secretariat.
He said, there was outbreak of the case in Wandi ward that claimed the life of one Sani Haruna, on December 2015 and the recent case of the disease on January 8,2016 in Bundot ward that lead to the dead of one Amina Maida, all in Dass Local Government Area.
The director said the victims tested results at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, confirmed that they died of Lassa fever. He explained that the department has carried out enlightenment campaign on the endemic disease and distributed pamphlets to people in the area. Kirfi added that seminars have so far been organised for health personnel in the local government on how to handle patients with Lassa fever symptoms in their various health centers.
‘’We have in collaboration with stakeholders and environmental health workers commenced sanitation inspection from time to time especially in those areas where the cases of Lassa fever were recorded. “We have caution our health workers that any fever case that defile treatment after a week, should be referred immediately to ATBUTH, Bauchi” he said.
The leader of the delegation, Elizabeth Carr said they were in the area with the support of World Health Organisation, WHO, to sensitise the people of the area on Lassa fever and the need for hygiene and sanitation.
It could be recalled that Bauchi State Government has debunked as untrue the report released by the Federal Government that Bauchi State is one of the state with cases of Lassa fever outbreak.
Meanwhile, Sokoto Government said it has intensified surveillance across the state in efforts to contain the spread of Lassa fever.
Despite initial apprehension of a possible case of the deadly disease in the state, government said three suspected cases earlier taken to Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, and Laboratory Centre for blood sample, analysis have all come out negative, reaffirming the zero case submission in Sokoto.
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, stated this on Wednesday when he went round hospitals in Sokoto town as part of efforts to intensify awareness on the dangers of the disease.