Nigeria sets up emergency response centre amid rise in Lassa fever cases

Lassa fever has claimed 190 lives in Nigeria this year, and the disease has infected more than 1100 people across six states.

This has prompted Nigeria to set up an emergency response centre, after a risk assessment by the Nigerian Center for Disease Control categorized it as high. The facility will help organise the control and management of the cases

The head of the agency noted that peak transmission typically occurs between October…