The Kano State Centre for Disease Control (KNCDC) has warned citizens in regards to the get started of the 2025/2026 Lassa Fever season in Nigeria.

In a commentary signed by means of the KNCDC Director General, Dr. Muhammad Adamu Abbas, the company mentioned the caution follows a countrywide alert from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), which famous that the chance of Lassa Fever transmission is normally excessive between October and May yearly.

Lassa Fever is a viral illness that spreads via touch with meals, water, or home items infected by means of the urine or faeces of inflamed rats.

It too can unfold from individual to individual via touch with the blood or frame fluids of inflamed folks. Dr. Abbas mentioned Kano’s setting makes the state prone to outbreaks.

He steered citizens to deal with right kind hygiene, stay their atmosphere blank, and retailer meals in tightly coated boxes to stay rodents away.

“Anyone who has power fever or comparable signs must seek advice from the closest well being facility in an instant,” he mentioned.

Common signs of Lassa Fever come with fever that doesn’t reply to common medicine, sore throat, chest or abdomen ache, vomiting, diarrhoea, and unexplained bleeding from any a part of the frame.

Health professionals say early detection and medicine very much toughen survival potential markets.

He mentioned “To get ready for conceivable instances, the Kano State Government has activated its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) for Lassa Fever reaction. It has additionally stocked up on very important provides similar to non-public protecting apparatus (PPE), antiviral medicine, and has began coaching well being employees on case finance and an infection prevention. Community consciousness campaigns and rodent regulate workout routines also are underway in high-risk spaces as a part of the state’s “One Health” reaction capital injection, which comes to environmental and agricultural sectors. ”

The KNCDC steered citizens to document any suspected instances in an instant as an alternative of making an attempt self-treatment. Dr. Abbas confident the general public that Lassa Fever is preventable and treatable if detected early, announcing: “Together, we will be able to stay Kano State unfastened from Lassa Fever this season.”