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Lack Of Funding Cited As Reason For lassa Fever Outbreak -- 12/01/16
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3:25Now PlayingMedical practitioners at the Lassa Fever Research Centre at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, have said that Lassa fever has been spreading in the country because authorities have not given the disease the attention it requires.
According to doctors at the institute, although Lassa fever is endemic in Nigeria, it has largely been ignored.
"Since 1969, Lassa fever became known as a clinical entity and now we are in 2016 many people are still not aware, the drugs are still largely unavailable, and vaccines are not available unlike other diseases that have had serious attention," one of the doctors said.
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