{"id":34748,"date":"2026-05-18T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34748"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:25:44","slug":"lassa-fever-claims-191-lives-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/lassa-fever-claims-191-lives-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Lassa fever claims 191 lives in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) reports that the death toll from the outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria has risen to 191.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">This follows as the health authorities warning of increasing infections recorded across several states in the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">The NCDC says the rising infections reflect persistent gaps in early detection and community response.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">The agency is currently working with partners including the World Health Organisation, the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and M\u00e9decins Sans Frontier among others to strengthen surveillance and response.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33628,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34748","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Lassa fever outbreak ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34754,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34748\/revisions\/34754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}