The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday that there are an estimated 500,000 people in west Africa infected with lassa fever every year. This data was released amid calls for more money to be spent on preventing its spread.
"The disease remains an epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria with evidence of its presence in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali," the WHO's representative in Sierra Leone, Dr Wondimagegnehu Anemu told delegates at a conference on infectious diseases. ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday that there are an estimated 500,000 people in west Africa infected with lassa fever every year. This data was released amid calls for more money to be spent on preventing its spread.
"The disease remains an epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria with evidence of its presence in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali," the WHO's representative in Sierra Leone, Dr Wondimagegnehu Anemu told delegates at a conference on infectious diseases. ...