A female patient (name withheld) has survived the Lassa fever disease at Federal Medical Center, Abuja ( formerly Federal Staff Hospital)
The patient presented with some of the symptoms and sign of a febrile illness on the 20th January 2016.
One of the doctors who attended to the patient attested that the patient presentation was not classical.
However, with high index of suspicion the diagnosis was made.
The Patient sample was send to a research laboratory in Lagos.
It was confirmed the following day to be a case of Lassa Fever,
Patient has been isolated since the day of diagnosis,
He has been on treatment since confirmed and has been discharged from the hospital.
On a lighter note, staff of another Federal Medical Center was said to have jumped the fence on seeing a patient suspected to have Lassa Fever.
It is no longer news that medical personnel are at increase risk of the disease
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