Forty dead in Nigeria by Lassa fever

abuja - In Nigeria last week forty people deceased with Lassa fever. Another 86 people have been infected since the turn of the year with the virus that causes internal bleeding. The disease has been reported in ten of the 36 districts in the country which has 180 million inhabitants.

Lassa fever crosses regularly emerged in Nigeria, where the disease was discovered in 1969 in the town of Lassa in the northeastern state of Borno. The disease first appears on the flu, but then leads to bleeding. The most serious outbreak was so far in 2012, when 112 of the 1723 infected deceased.