{"id":79036,"date":"2025-11-20T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79036"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:45:46","slug":"79036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/79036\/","title":{"rendered":"Lassa Fever Death Toll Hits 177, Cases Rise to 966 -NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says Lassa fever has killed 177 people in 2025, with 966 confirmed cases recorded as of epidemiological Week 44.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest NCDC report, the Case Fatality Rate has climbed to 18.3%, up from 16.5% during the same period in 2024. Twenty-one states have reported cases across 102 Local Government Areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Week 44 update shows a slight rise in new infections, from 11 in Week 43 to 12 recorded in Ondo, Edo, and Benue. The agency noted that 87% of all infections came from Ondo (36%), Bauchi (21%), Edo (17%), and Taraba (13%).<\/p>\n<p>NCDC said the most affected age group is 21\u201330 years, with a median age of 30, and a male-to-female ratio of 1:0.8.<\/p>\n<p>It added that suspected and confirmed cases have declined compared to last year and no healthcare worker infection was recorded in Week 44.<\/p>\n<p>The national multi-sectoral Lassa Fever Technical Working Group continues to coordinate response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation describes Lassa fever as an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted mainly through food or household items contaminated by the urine or faeces of infected Mastomys rats.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is endemic in several West African countries, including Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says Lassa fever has killed 177 people in 2025, with 966 confirmed cases recorded as of epidemiological Week 44. According to the latest NCDC report, the Case Fatality Rate has climbed to 18.3%, up from 16.5% during the same period in 2024. Twenty-one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79036","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\/79036","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=79036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79040,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79036\/revisions\/79040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}