About 26 people are suspected to have died of Lassa fever in seven states across Nigeria with more than 150 others feared to have been infected , the BBC news agency reports.
The Lasa fever is transmitted to humans from rodents that harbour the virus. The most common complication of the virus is deafness and it is transmitted to humans from rodents that harbour the virus.
Health officials were still carrying out tests to confirm the numbers.
“It could be lower but we need to wait for different laboratory tests before arriving at a definite figure,” the head of Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control Abdussalam Nasidi said.
Cases had been reported from states in the north and south – including the most populous, Kano, and the oil-rich Rivers State, he said.
