The Adamawa State Government has confirmed the death of one person following an outbreak of Lassa fever.
The state Commissioner for Health & Human Services, Prof Abdullahi Isa, made the confirmation during a press briefing Tuesday at the state Secretariat Complex in Yola.
According to him, the deceased was a pregnant woman who suffered a stillbirth while her affliction lasted.
He said, “The index case was a 29-year-old woman from Numan local government area who was first seen as a gravid patient in a private health facility here in Yola on 18th January 2020 and referred to FMC Yola on the 21st January 2020. There, she expelled a macerated still birth.”
The commissioner said after the woman was suspected of the Lassa fever virus, her blood sample, and that of three other people, was taken and sent to a reference laboratory in Abuja where she tested positive for Lassa fever virus while the other three were negative “as revealed by the result on the 25th of Jan 2020.”
