Lassa
Britishnoun
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People who are found to have Lassa fever will receive supportive treatment, meaning that they will be provided with fluids, monitored for their symptoms, and treated with medications depending on which symptoms they have.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
Not long after, he was sent to Sierra Leone to help investigate an outbreak of Lassa fever, a virulent hemorrhagic virus.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024
Other scientists had discovered that this gene was critical for the Lassa virus to enter cells.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
At the Galveston National Laboratory he has worked with guinea pigs infected with Ebola virus and macaques carrying Lassa fever.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2023
Lassa fever was first observed in 1969 in Nigeria, where it causes a fatal illness so contagious that Nigerian hospitals have been closed down if even a single case appears.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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