LASSA Fever Kills Pregnant Woman, Doctor Corps Member In Kaduna

A pregnant woman and two health workers have been confirmed dead following an outbreak of Lassa fever in Kaduna.

According to the state commissioner for health, Professor Jonathan Andrew Nok who confirmed the incident, the three people included a medical doctor who was undergoing his national youth service year as a corp and a community health nurse that died at the Saint Louis Hospital in Zonkwa, area of Zango Kataf local government of the state.

The doctor and the nurse were said to have conducted an operation on the pregnant woman but died of the same disease two weeks ago.

The commissioner said that two weeks ago, there was a pregnant woman that visited the Saint Louis Hospital after she was referred from a clinic in Kamuru.

‘‘An operation was conducted on her by the doctor and nurse. She subsequently died.”

“The two individuals that died were the people that actually attended to the pregnant woman. She died about two weeks ago. No one thought they would die like that after the woman. The woman died of lassa disease. She was buried properly. And it was after her death that symptoms of LASSA started to show on the medical doctor and the community nurse.

“The doctor and the nurse died after they had high temperature consistently for four days,” the commissioner said.

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