{"id":168521,"date":"2025-07-05T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:16:39","slug":"fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths","title":{"rendered":"Fatality Rate Hits 18.6% as Nigeria Records 145 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has disclosed that the country recorded 145 Lassa fever-related deaths in its Epidemiological Week 25.<\/p>\n<p>The government agency also disclosed on its website on Saturday that it recorded a case fatality rate, CFR, of 18.6 per cent, marking an increase from 17.6 per cent reported for the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which covered week 16\u201322 of June, revealed that there were 781 confirmed cases out of the suspected 5,943 reported in 20 states and 101 Local Government Areas, LGAs.<\/p>\n<p>In the current reporting week, 10 new confirmed cases were reported in Ondo and Edo States, a slight increase from the eight cases recorded the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>According to NCDC, 91 per cent of all confirmed cases in 2025 were reported from just five states: Ondo (31%), Bauchi (24%), Edo (17%), Taraba (16%), and Ebonyi (3%).<\/p>\n<p>It said that the disease continues to affect young adults predominantly, with the 21\u201330 age group most impacted. Males were slightly more affected, with a male-to-female ratio of 1:0.8.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting late presentation, high treatment costs, and poor health-seeking behaviour as contributing factors to the increased fatality rates, the NCDC said no new infections among health workers were recorded in the reporting week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has disclosed that the country recorded 145 Lassa fever-related deaths in its Epidemiological Week 25. The government agency also disclosed on its website on Saturday that it recorded a case fatality rate, CFR, of 18.6 per cent, marking an increase from 17.6 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1810,254],"class_list":["post-168521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-lassa-fever","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fatality Rate Hits 18.6% as Nigeria Records 145 Deaths - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has disclosed that the country recorded 145 Lassa fever-rel ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fatality Rate Hits 18.6% as Nigeria Records 145 Deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has disclosed that the country recorded 145 Lassa fever-rel ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-05T20:09:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-05T21:16:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751737675.860202.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"799\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fatality Rate Hits 18.6% as Nigeria Records 145 Deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-05T20:09:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-05T21:16:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751737675.860202.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lassa fever\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fatality-rate-hits-18-6-as-nigeria-records-145-deaths\",\"name\":\"Fatality Rate Hits 18.6% as Nigeria Records 145 Deaths - 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