NCDC activates emergency centres as Lassa fever surges

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 1,154 confirmed cases of Lassa fever out of the 9,492 suspected cases and 190 deaths so far in 2024. At a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, the Director General of the NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed that “There has been an alarming increase in