Following the global Covid-19 pandemic outbreak since 2019, we know there has been a lot of buzz concerning the maintainance of personal hygiene. But is it really just about your personal hygiene? Keeping your environment clean is also a cogent key in having a great hygienic system. So why should you have a good environmental hygiene? Disease Control Sincerely, there are several other diseases to look out for in Nigeria if proper hygiene is not maintained and one of them is the Lassa fever. The number of Lassa fever cases has been slowly but steadily increasing over the years in the country. Lassa fever which was first discovered in 1969 and had 308 cases in the year 2017, 633 cases in 2018, 810 cases in 2019 now has 1000 confirmed cases as at the 19th week of the year; 04-10, May 2020 with 192 deaths within the past weeks according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. About 90-95% of the infection is actually due to the contamination of food items and household items by the mult...
