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Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus and first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria.[1] Lassa virus is a member of the Arenaviridae virus family. Similar to ebola,[2] clinical cases of Lassa fever had been known for over a decade, but had not been connected with a viral pathogen.
The primary animal host of the Lassa virus is the Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis), an animal found in mo...
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