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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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www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/L...
www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/LassaFever/GeneralInformation/lassa010LassaFeverQuestionsandAnswers/
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Nov 15, 2011 ... Lassa fever is an acute illness caused by Lassa virus, one of a family of ... in Nigeria in 1969 and subsequently was found in other areas of West Africa. ... begins, and therefore can be transmitted by sex during this period.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2366678/
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Isolation of an arenavirus closely related to Lassa virus from Mastomys natalensis in south-east Africa. Herta Wulff, Bruce M. McIntosh, Dale B. Hamner, and Karl ...
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2366678/pdf/bullwh...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2366678/pdf/bullwho00447-0012.pdf
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of complement fixation and indirect immunofluorescent tests suggest that these viruses from south-east Africa are not identical to West African Lassa virus.
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/830594-overview
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Apr 18, 2011 ... Arenavirus, Lassa fever, Africa, Rodent, 5-16 .... with the most severe outbreaks occurring in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific regions.
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mrcindia.org/journal/issues/441001.pdf
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Africa. Studies reported in English, that investigated Lassa fever with reference to West Africa were ..... ated with sex, age, weight, volume of loading dose, ...
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www.tribune.com.ng/sun/component/content/article/103-sp...
www.tribune.com.ng/sun/component/content/article/103-special-report/6294-lassa-fever-the-hidden-epidemic-is-here
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5 days ago ... Lassa fever has over the years risen to be a quiet killer with victims ... around many homes in Africa has been identified as the carrier of the virus. ... Lassa fever is not gender or sex specific as it occurs both in men and women.
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www.jstor.org/stable/30105053
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The high incidence of Lassa fever makes it a major problem in West Africa. Early descriptions of .... age and sex distribution of the sample could be ex- pected to ...
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wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/7/pdfs/10-0146.pdf
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virus from an area previously unknown for Lassa fever. ... sis rats are ubiquitous in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, ... Se- rologic evidence of LASV infections has also been reported from other West and Central African countries (5,7–9).
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