Ekiti state government on monday discovered a case of lassa fever in the state. The state commissioner for health, Dr Olorutimi Ojo said the index case; A female student of the federal University teaching hospital, Ido Ekiti was receiving treatment . She was taken to the hospital on saturday after been treated for malaria typhoid fever with high profile antibiotics without positive responds, hypechie news update recorded that the current out break of lassa fever has killed 40 people since november 2015 , including a doctor. Ekiti now, marks the 12th state were the case has now been confirmed. Dr Ojo said there was no cause for alarm, sayin the situation was under control as the patient has been placed in the isolation ward.
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