Kikero112:


A viral hemmoraghic fever.

It was first isolated by American scientists in 1969....after two American missionaries died of a strange illness.

It is spread by a certain species of rat

It was first isolated from patients in the village of Lassa in what is now Borno state...hence the name Lassa fever.

More info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassa_fever

Opiosko:
Rotimi Ameachi oo
why do you want to kill your because just because they voted Wike?
Bringing norther disease to your own people because you want to be seen as loyal to bokoharry?

Opiosko:
Rotimi Ameachi oo
why do you want to kill your because just because they voted Wike?
Bringing norther disease to your own people because you want to be seen as loyal to bokoharry?

Opiosko:
Northern amajiri people sickness

Kikero112:


Lassa fever has been around in Nigeria for a long time...long before Buhari was born even. (The causative organism was isolated in 1969).

And yes...we are prepared for it....as it is local to Nigeria....and we have the trained people on ground....unlike Ebola which was imported.

oshe11:
who sed Buhari wasnt born then, U or his Mother?

Opiosko:
Rotimi Ameachi oo
why do you want to kill your because just because they voted Wike?
Bringing norther disease to your own people because you want to be seen as loyal to bokoharry?

ijustdey:








www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/01/05/lassa-fever-outbreak-in-rivers-two-confirmed-dead/

Kikero112:


Ah glad to know that you think Buhari is immortal.....and that he was born some 15 million years ago....when the dinosaurs roamed...

On a more serious note, Lassa fever has been around for a while. Infact, it was first observed in Sierra Leone in the early part of the 20th century. Unfortunately, virology was in its infancy.....so no one knew what was causing the disease. It was only in 1969 that the disease was eventually identified thanks to the work of researchers at the CDC in Atlanta.

If you do not like Buhari.....why don't you go to Aso Rock and tell him so. This is a democracy.

P.S...Assignment:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583312/

Toosure70:
Lassa started from northern Nigeria. Great invention

oshe11:
u sed 1969 in ur 1st post, dats whr my question is based on

Kikero112:


Except that it isn't.

People have been dying from Lassa fever for centuries....long before there was a Nigeria.

The problems was that back then,people did not have a name for the disease.....just like many of the other viral diseases that were flying around then. (slightly off topic....most diarrhoea in children is caused by a virus...rotavirus).Even when the whites came, they did not have names for most of the diseases flying around Africa then.

So, if someone died of a febrille illenss with lots of weakness and tiredness back in say 1909 in some remote village in Nigeria....he or she was supposed to have died of ''African fever'' (There is no such disease....it was just the medical authority 's way of saying back then....I have no idea what this person was suffering from).

As science imporved....we eventually discovered that a lot of the fevers in Africa were caused by viruses, and bacteria,and fungi, and protozoa (Malaria is a protozoan disease).

Lassa fever is a viral disease. Now...most viral diseases are self limiting....ie they enter your body, give you fever for a few days, and then get offed by your body's immune system (Good example....common cold). Lassa fever, like its cousin Ebola-Marburg and its distant relation HIV are not self limiting. They do a lot of damage to the immune system before it can react....and then other organisms...the bacteria,fungi, protozoa and viruses....come in and finish the job.

And they have been there for thousands, if not millions of years. And their ability to survive has a lot to do with evolution...ie they have evolved mechanisms to keep alive in a host body for as long as possible. (Rule 1 of evolution....only the fittest and the most adaptable survive...all others are on their own). And no....they were not manufactured in some lab to deal with Africans. (Because manufacturing a virus in a lab to deal with the black people involves assuming that all black people are alike immunologically speaking. We ain't. There are some people who are resistant to the HIV virus, Ebola and even Lassa for example because of genetic mutations. Evolution again!)

Fortunately for Lassa we have a cure.It is called ribavirin....and it works.Better still....it can be used in people who get infected with the Lassa virus, but have not come down with the disease. That's why I am not worried....the same way Ebola worried me.

Kikero112:


To clarify....and sorry if I was not clear enough....the causative agent of Lassa fever was isolated in 1969.

But it has been there for a long time....the problem was that we did not have the science to identify it.