{"id":74574,"date":"2020-02-19T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/?p=30655"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:47:53","slug":"lagos-identifies-first-lassa-fever-case-as-law-student-from-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/lagos-identifies-first-lassa-fever-case-as-law-student-from-ebonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Identifies First Lassa Fever Case as Law Student from Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lagos Ministry of Health has identified the state\u2019s index Lassa fever patient as an indigene of Ebonyi who arrived at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

The state health ministry\u2019s Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Tunbosun Ogunbamwo, confirmed this on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He said the state was confident that the outbreak would be \u201ccomfortably contained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Ogunbamwo only said the index patient was from Ebonyi State, without disclosing further details.<\/p>\n

The health commissioner, Prof. Akin Abayomi, had earlier referred to the patient as a \u201che,\u201d suggesting he is male.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient came in over the weekend for a programme in Lagos shortly before he was diagnosed,\u201d Ogunbamwo said.<\/p>\n

Sources within the ministry revealed that shortly after the index patient arrived at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos for a law programme at the weekend, he started complaining of fever.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he was feeling funny. This made people direct him to the Law School Clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the ailment became complicated, he was referred to Lagos University Teaching Hospital, where Lassa fever was diagnosed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, people within the clinic have been confined, including the nurse who attended to him,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

He said that while it was not yet clear whether the patient arrived by air or by road, there are concerted efforts to identify those he associated with in the last 24 hours of his arrival.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, we are striving to contain information flow so that residents in Lagos don\u2019t go into panic mode.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good thing is that the incident happened on a weekend and didn\u2019t give us much problem in narrowing down the contacts with the patient since his arrival.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have also seen where some media quoted LASUTH as where the patient was quarantined. That report is incorrect. You will get to hear more from our media conference this evening,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n

The Punch<\/p>\n

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