Nigeria's Health Emergency: Lassa Fever Cases Spike | What Happens Next?

Ajouté : 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Abusua, Abusua, come with me again.

[00:00:02]You'll come with me again. Abusua, this is your humble servant right here on this platform, Top Gossip 24. Ushia me at now Abum aka say them feel our feeler. Abusua, you're welcome back to this platform. And you guys know say enna we get some feelers and some news out there from the WHO respect to disease bi aba. And as a [snorts] virus bi aba pimo and Abusua, according to the report I'm getting now, this is the first time I have seen this hantavirus, okay? But I'm here today to discuss the hantavirus. And then we'll go through with you to uh study one or two things against one of the virus or one of the sicknesses that is also out there in West Africa, which is known as Lassa fever, Lassa fever. So, we're going to go through all this, but I want you guys to stay with me from the beginning to the end because I'm going to go through the system with you to compare two kind of diseases that is already in a system and where one is found and where the other one is found actually. So, stay with me and before we go into deep now, we'll go and listen to some short video from the WHO director, okay? After that, we'll come here and we'll come and just go through this particular video. And I'm going to just take my time so that by the end you understand what is going on. And then we are calling for something in our country, in our motherland, we have to call for it. The way it is prepared. So, please listen to me. Let's go and listen to the video from the WHO. And then when we finish, we'll come and read systematically on this. We'll be right back. Eight cases have been reported, including three deaths.

[00:01:50]Five of the eight cases have been confirmed as hantavirus, and the other three are suspected.

[00:01:59]Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents that can cause severe disease in humans.

[00:02:08]People are usually infected through contact with infected rodents or their urine, droppings, or saliva.

[00:02:17]The species of hantavirus involved in this case is the Andes virus, which is found in Latin America and is the only species known to be capable of limited transmission between humans.

[00:02:31]In previous outbreaks of Andes virus, transmission between people has been associated with close and prolonged contact, particularly among household members, intimate partners, and people providing medical care.

[00:02:49]That appears to be the case in the current situation.

[00:02:54]The first case was in a man who developed symptoms on the 6th of April and died on the ship on the 11th of April.

[00:03:07]No samples were taken, and because his symptoms were similar to those of other respiratory diseases, hantavirus was not suspected.

[00:03:19]The man's wife went ashore when the ship docked at the island of Saint Helena and was also symptomatic.

[00:03:28]She deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg on the 25th of April and died the next day.

[00:03:39]Samples were taken, which were tested at South Africa's National Institute of Communicable Diseases and confirmed as hantavirus.

[00:03:49]The third death was a a woman on the ship who developed symptoms on the 28th of April and died on the 2nd of May.

[00:04:00]All right guys, now I believe that you guys listened to the WHO director. Now he was explaining how the hantavirus came to be and everything. We've learned a lot of things already where this thing happened in one of the ship I see ship now. It was so baby it was spinning and I see baby in the sea here and Nina is I must say I see in the path to be able to go to South Africa according to news now I hear it clearly now I get but today we shall I'm here to just take you through what I was I'm learning and what I'm studying online. So quickly now make all every side every side say what is the difference between hantavirus and what Lassa fever? What is the difference between what hantavirus and Lassa fever? Now these are the two things I want to compare because hantavirus according to what is going on right now now is common within America, part of Europe, Asia and really in Africa. Just in p m or Africa car in p m or Africa. Now we go through the steps to read it and then we'll compare it to one particular virus which is already in Uzbekistan. Tim Ye which is already where in Uzbekistan. He in Asia Nigeria or more what can we compare the hantavirus and see what is going on out there. Quickly like I said how to get how to get it for the hantavirus. That is what they say how to get the hantavirus. Breathing in dust from mouse rat droppings / urine. Say a b a or baby now rat be a doing so and I say rat be a drop drop on the poopoo near idea. Now we will go car or bring your son hantavirus baby Tim Ye now Tim Ye very well. Now areas say to me I felt it uh your lungs and then breathing problem.

[00:05:50]And once you have that thing contacting you, you start to have issues with your lungs and then you have breathing problem. May illness uh hantavirus uh porosity and uh sitting hospital for my almost say pulmonary and what syndrome, which is HPS, okay?

[00:06:09]HPS. Now, person-to-person spread, that is what the system is saying.

[00:06:14]Person-to-person spread uh almost never.

[00:06:18]Person-to-person, that is what is here, almost never. Now, vaccine, there's no vaccine yet. A new disease about.

[00:06:26]Everybody is looking at it. Everybody is studying it. Everybody is going about his own business to see what is going on. But I'm just trying to make sure I say member awareness be about the hantavirus and the Lassa fever, okay?

[00:06:38]These two. So, hantavirus so far since I will say it is a new virus be about.

[00:06:44]What to me open the part two be another say we couldn't part three be another say among for according to what we are hearing. But when you come to the Lassa fever, it's in Nigeria, to be precise. Let's go and go and read through. Timi, I brought this thing here because I want you guys to see it because a while ago uh one of my ghosting members calling me and she was giving me some take bets with respect to this and I'm like I want to do a bit of research to understand what is going on and then I'll go search more and see what the WHO is talking about and what is going on. So, this is a quick solution or this is a quick random check that I was doing and I found this and I want to read out to you. Lassa fever, right? Or Lassa fever. Lassa fever, where it commonly from? West Africa, including Nigeria.

[00:07:35]Timi, West Africa, including Nigeria.

[00:07:38]That is where the whole thing was founded, okay? How to get it? Contact with food, cool surface, or items contaminated by rat or urine feces. Now, compare this one, eh? Compare this one that I'm talking about here. Compare this Let me highlight this, okay?

[00:07:57]Compare this that I'm talking about here, okay? Urine, rat feces. And then, look at this one, mouse rat droplet. You see, they are common. They look the same, right? Look at it. Food contaminated by what? Rat and urine feces, okay? And then this one, eh? How you to get it? Breathing dust of mouse and whatever droplet. This is it. So, I'm comparing these two. So, maybe are you understand what I'm saying? They look the same and they have two different names. Let's look at how dangerous the virus is and the fever is.

[00:08:32]Let's look at it because it is very very important we look into it.

[00:08:36]And when I finish, I'm going to call all of the the the people that are taking care of Ghana because if this Lassa thing is already in our own Nigeria, then we have to be careful. Timi, we have to be careful.

[00:08:50]Now, let's go quickly.

[00:08:52]Let's deal with this. Now, main organ affected, whole body. Can affect your blood organ and cause bleeding in severe cases. Timi, you listen to what I'm saying. I'm reading from here, okay? So, you follow what I'm reading. Maybe I don't mean it blueness, you know? The whole enemy rich. So, just follow me to see what I'm talking about, okay? Then, I say main illness type, okay? A fever, eh? Can cause bleeding and can cause failure of what? Failure of what?

[00:09:25]Organs. Mhm? Can cause failure of organs. Timi, everything is This is very very important, too. Mhm? Comparing the Lassa fever to the virus that is coming.

[00:09:35]And the Lassa is already in Nigeria. And we are joking opening our borders every day. Now, the most important thing I want you to look out for. TV and I feel weak. Person to person spread. Now, compare the person to person spread here.

[00:09:52]Compare this person to person spread.

[00:09:54]Compare this one. And then come here.

[00:09:56]Come and compare this.

[00:09:58]Person to person spread. See how dangerous this one is. The Lassa fever.

[00:10:03]See how dangerous it Person to person spread way it's not possible. This one is saying that the one in in Nigeria, the disease that is on in Nigeria already, person to person is not as or see them.

[00:10:17]Listen to it carefully. Yes, person to person. Yes, especially in hospitals or close contact with body fluid.

[00:10:27]I'm telling you people the border that we keep opening in Ghana, we are about to experience this.

[00:10:33]We are about to be your best experience.

[00:10:36]Yeah, deal with It shouldn't open it because Lassa fever in Nigeria already.

[00:10:52]And start bleeding. Then I see you.

[00:10:54]Severe cases and we're already. Now, vaccine No approved vaccine yet. That is what the system is saying. That is when I was doing my research. This is not like I'm conjoining something.

[00:11:06]Everything is here. You can look at it.

[00:11:08]You see what I'm talking about.

[00:11:09]Everything is here. Now, let's go. Let's check this. Now, some sample comparison. Okay, let's compare this. Let's compare apple to mango and whatever. Now, main region for the virus, okay? Main region for the virus, hey, America, Asia, and where? Europe.

[00:11:26]That is it. Now, for the Lassa fever, West Africa including Nigeria. They didn't mention any other country. West West Africa, including Nigeria. Virus source rodents. And then this one, virus source also rodent. Now, person-to-person spread for the Hanta virus, very real. This is very real. That means it's not happening to person-to-person. But Lassa fever, no.

[00:11:54]It is yes, possible. Everyone in Nigeria, so we have to be careful. I'm saying, let's be careful. Main danger, lungs failure, which is the other one, okay? This one, main failure, bleeding and organ damage. So you see, these two diseases now, they are They have the same thing coming from a particular animal, which is rat or rat urine or feces. The other one is contamination of food. The other one is urine of rat or something. They have the same similarities. The difference is not that much.

[00:12:32]Now, common in Nigeria, the virus this virus that has come is not in Nigeria, but this one, which is the Lassa fever, is there in Nigeria. They look the same.

[00:12:43]They look the same.

[00:12:46]Now, listen to this too. Easy way to remind you.

[00:12:49]I'm going to tell you people also how to feel the same things. So maybe you know, when you are feeling some things same things, you will know. Easy way to remind. Hanta value Hanta virus, right? Hanta virus affects the lungs problem. Lassa fever affects whole body and bleeding, okay? That is what it is. Now, I'm going to check, I'm going to give you people the symptoms you have to see. So hold on, let me go and check for the Now, these are the symptoms here, guys.

[00:13:18]These are the symptoms here. I want you guys to focus on the symptoms, so you know exactly what we are talking about, okay? For the hantavirus, mhm, fever, chills, headache, uh muscle pain, especially back, tight hips, tiredness, nausea, or stomach pain for the hantavirus. Let's go to the other one also. Later, more serious stages, shortness of breath, coughing, fluid in lungs, um trouble in breathing, and no energy will be corner. Then became severe quickly. Uh-huh. Now, let's go to the next one, which is already in Afghanistan. Which is already where? In Nigeria. Yeah, in Guinea. Uh-huh, laser fever symptoms in Guinea. Fever, weakness, tiredness, headache, sore throat, chest and stomach pain. They look the same, oh. Vomiting and diarrhea. Severely, it will come.

[00:14:21]Swelling in face or body, bleeding in noses, mouth, gums, and some cases and some cases uh lower blood pressure, and then organ damage, liver, kidney, and hearing losses. Oh, see? T T T T. So, guys, this is very important, oh. We have to tell His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. Please do not open the borders you want to open into Ghana. Ebola is here.

[00:14:52]Fever, fever. Afghanistan for now.

[00:15:09]Please, go more go back That's in it.