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www.life123.com/question/What-Causes-Lassa-Fever
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The reservoir, or host, of Lassa virus is a rodent known as the "multimammate rat" of the genus Mastomys. It is not certain ... Lassa fever is an acute viral illness that occurs in West Africa.
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www.life123.com/question/What-Is-Lassa-Fever
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Lassa fever is an acute viral illness caused by Lassa virus, which is hosted by rodents in the Mastomys natalensis species complex and rarely imported to countries outside of those areas in...
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www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lassaf.htm
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Lassa fever is an acute viral illness that occurs in West Africa. The illness was discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died in Nigeria, West Africa.
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wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0812.htm
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Oct 4, 2011 ... PCR screening of 1482 murid rodents from 13 genera caught in 18 different localities of Guinea, West Africa, showed Lassa virus infection only ...
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www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs179/en/
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Lassa fever. Fact sheet N°179. Lassa viral haemorrhagic fever is an acute illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa. Though first described in the ...
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Lassa fever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassa_fever
The primary animal host of the Lassa virus is the Natal Multimammate Mouse ( Mastomys natalensis), an animal indigenous to most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd....
www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000388
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Previous studies on the eco-epidemiology of Lassa fever in Guinea, West Africa, have shown that the reservoir is two to three times more infected by Lassa virus ...
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www.tarakharper.com/v_lassa.htm
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As with other arenaviruses, Lassa virus does not have a conventional ... commonly "exported" hemorrhagic fever; its victims carry the disease from Africa to the ...
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www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/L...
www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/LassaFever/EpidemiologyRiskMaps/lassaafrica/
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Jul 14, 2010 ... Map showing the high risk countries for Lassa fever in Africa.
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