LAGOS - Nigeria has set up an emergency response centre to contain rising cases of Lassa fever after 26 people were killed in the past three weeks, the country's disease control agency said.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday it had activated the national Lassa fever Emergency Operations Centre in response to the outbreak in some parts of the country. Most of those infected do not show symptoms, but severe bleeding and organ failure can occur in about a fifth of cases.
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