Lassa Fever: Facts You Should Know

FACTSHEETS ON LASSA FEVER

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Lassa Fever is an Acute Febrile disease caused by the Lassa virus. Lassa Fever occurs more often in the dry season, rather than in the rainy season. The multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis) is the reservoir host of Lassa fever.

THE COST OF IGNORANCE

"If you think to get knowledge is expensive, try ignorance."

Anita, 11, is the joy of her parents and her sibling. She's loved by many people she had made contact with. She has a kind and loving heart, always eager to be of help to people. Last week Monday, the civic education teacher in her school taught her class the basics of crossing the road instructing them  to adhere to the principle. Today, she missed the school bus and so she had to walk to school, about 15 minutes. She gets on the road, remembers what she was taught on crossing roads:

WHAT IS FOOD POISONING?

 In the primary four class of a state-owned school, the teacher, Uncle Preye, is teaching the pupils Nutrition, a topic under Primary Science. The class is lively as the pupils take turns to give answer to questions asked by their uncle and everything is good. The class continues that way until the uncle asks the last but not the least question

BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE GOT

I was in a bus en route for Oyingbo, Ebutte Metta, when my phone rang, it was my mom calling. I answered the call and with joy in her voice she told me the good news that Chidinma, my twin sister, had just given birth to her second child, a baby girl.

A RAT TAUGHT ME A LESSON

A little rat kept disturbing my house, so I had to find a lasting solution; which is to get it away.

And so that evening, I got a rat gum, positioned it so strategically that it caught the rat in no time. I looked at the rat as it struggled to release itself but to no avail. After watching for a while, I decided to leave it there until the next day.

How To Know If It’s Love You Are Feeling

You will agree with me that one of the most used words in all of history is the word, "Love". Love is the feeling of great fondness or enthusiasm for a person or thing.

A mother, just delivered of her baby, showers it on the new world comer; siblings show it to each other; parents express it to their children; people, for the sake of the word, can do anything to make friends happy; some people show it to other people just for goodness sake; and also, lover boys sing enchanting songs to their lover girls, and vice versa, to shows how mad-in-love they are.

SMILE AND LET SMILE

And so I went to the Fidelity Bank branch in my area to make an enquiry, a simple one. I got to the bank, went straight to the customer care section and as I opened my mouth to say the reason for my visit, one of the two agents (female) asked me to sit and wait for my turn. She would have given a simple answer to my question if I had asked, and then I leave the bank, I thought; but in other to be courteous, I sat.