The state’s Epidemiologist, Dr Msuega Asema, disclosed this at the weekend during an assessment visit by the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Paul Ejeh-Ogwuche, to isolation centres at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital and the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Makurdi.
Asema said the outbreak had severely affected frontline workers, including five medical doctors, four nurses, two community health extension workers and one hospital porter.
He described the rising infections among health personnel as alarming.
