The Ogun State government has confirmed its first case of Lassa fever.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, confirmed the case to journalists on Wednesday in Abeokuta.
She said the index case is a 25-year-old National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) member who fell sick while in Ondo.
She added that the corps member was thereafter brought to a secondary health facility in Ijebu-North Local Government Area on March 18 and died the same day.
The commissioner described Lassa fever as a viral Haemorrhagic disease that causes high grade fever, headache, general body weakness and sore throat.
“Other symptoms may include muscle pain, cough, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, chest pain and unexplained bleeding from the ears, eyes, nose, mouth and other body openings,” Coker stated.