{"id":72215,"date":"2025-08-06T05:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72215"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:44:33","slug":"155-nigerians-die-of-lassa-fever-as-fatality-rate-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/155-nigerians-die-of-lassa-fever-as-fatality-rate-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"155 Nigerians Die of Lassa Fever as Fatality Rate Climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lassa fever has killed 155 Nigerians in 2025, with the fatality rate rising to 18.9%, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), reports.<\/p>\n<p>This marks an increase from the 17.1% recorded during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 20, 822 confirmed cases were reported across 21 states, with 89% of infections found in Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, and Ebonyi. Most victims are young adults aged 21 to 30.<\/p>\n<p>Although overall cases have slightly declined from last year, the growing death toll signals the virus&#8217;s increasing severity.<\/p>\n<p>The NCDC warns that Lassa fever is mainly spread through contact with infected rodents and human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Lassa fever has killed 155 Nigerians in 2025, with the fatality rate rising to 18.9%, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), reports. This marks an increase from the 17.1% recorded during the same period in 2024. As of July 20, 822 confirmed cases were reported across 21 states, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72217,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions\/72217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}