DAILY POST
Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, in Cross River State, Dr Felix Archibong, has raised the alarm over the resurgence of wastes and the resultant emergence of rats in parts of Calabar, the capital.
He adduced the resurgence of Lassa fever in the state to the increasing and indiscriminate dumping of wastes and the large presence of rats.
It would be recalled that recently the World Health Organization, WHO, and Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, had reported an upsurge in Lassa Fever cases in parts of the country.
In an interview with DAILY POST on Wednesday, Archibong said that poor environmental hygiene in the state accounts for the prevalence of Lassa fever.
According to him, Lassa fever is majorly caused by refuse, contamination of foods and water consumed by humans.
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