Nigeria: Rats Fever Kills 40 in Nigeria

Abuja — Medical groups are making frantic efforts to contain the spread of a Lassa fever outbreak that has killed at least 40 people in Nigeria this year.

Some 450 cases of the acute viral hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the southern parts of the country.

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