The Ebonyi State Ministry of Health on Wednesday said 14 deaths have been recorded out of about 110 suspected cases of Lassa fever recently recorded in the state.
Dr. Hyacinth Ebenyi, the Director of Public Health at the ministry, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki. He said that the 14 cases were among the 29 confirmed cases of the disease recorded as at February 20.
Ebenyi expressed concern that no fewer than 110 suspected cases of the disease were recently recorded in the state.
