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CEPI 3.0 and the Race to Develop the World’s First Lassa Fever Vaccine

Shalom David and Uwaifiokun Okhuarobo (Lead writers) Every dry season, the wards begin to fill. At Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo State and the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo State, two of Nigeria’s treatment centres for Lassa fever, clinicians recognise the pattern all too well. A farmer arrives with a persistent fever that […]

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Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control: Strengthening Nigeria’s Local Capacity to Lead the Lassa Fever Response

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By Beti Baiye and Ibukun Oguntola The driveway in the grounds of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) is large and welcoming and as you enter the hospital premises, the hospital’s motto: ‘Patient is Supreme’ catches the eye. The hospital was founded in 1993 to manage viral haemorrhagic fever including Lassa fever and over the […]

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Fighting Lassa: Five lessons from three special hospitals managing most cases of Lassa fever in Nigeria

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At the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Mrs. Martha Okonofua moves around the ward with a smile. The Lassa Fever isolation ward at the hospital is unusually full. Mrs. Martha and her team are working extra hours as they are responsible for managing the highest number of Lassa fever patients in any hospital in Nigeria. Laughter […]

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