He called on the committee to begin Operation Flush Out Lassa Fever from the state within the shortest time possible. Other members are the State Epidemiologist, who is the Incident Manager on Lassa Fever Outbreak, Dr Stephen Fagbemi, the Acting Director, Public Health for the state, Dr Victor Adeusi,Femi Agagu,Lola Fagbemi and Mr Yemi Olowolabi. “The original source is from rats to humans, but we have lots of human to human transmission. He stressed the need for early detection and treatment of Lassa Fever, which he said had pieces of symptomatic evidence similar to malaria. He said the effort would also prevent the devastating effects of lassa fever on organs such as kidney failure which could life-threatening and death.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2019 17:15 UTC