SAN FRANCISCO, August 08, (THEWILL) – The Accident and Emergency unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has been cordoned off following suspected outbreak of Lassa Fever .
Two persons have been reported to have died due to the outbreak while a medical officer, who is critically ill, is being treated at the hospital’s isolation ward.
Other patients are being attended to at the spillover ward but some other units on the same axis of the ward A and E have also been cordoned off.
Meanwhile, the management of the hospital has put up a surveillance team in place to monitor the outbreak.