Nigeria has recorded 14 new cases of Lassa Fever brought the cumulative infections to 1,035 cases in 2026.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) disclosed in its Week 33 situation report released in Abuja on Tuesday, stated that the cases were recorded between August 10 and August 16 in Bauchi, Benue, Ondo and Edo states.
According to the report, the 14 new cases represented an increase from four cases reported during epidemiological Week 32, when cases were recorded in Ondo and Edo states, stressing that in Week 32, cumulative infections reached 1,021, with 240 deaths and a case fatality rate of 23.5 per cent.
The report explained that 252 deaths have been recorded, as the case fatality rate has moved to 24.4 percent, higher than the 18.6 per cent recorded in 2025.
“The Week 32 figure represents a decline from 17 confirmed cases recorded during epidemiological Week 31, indicating fluctuations in weekly transmission,” the report said.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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