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View Post: Soc 202 - Current Events: Lassa Fever
30 Oct 2009 by Courtney  
Lassa Fever has been found in the lower hemisphere of China which is odd since the illness has been mostly found in West Africa. The illness affects several of the major organs and can last up to a month. The symptoms that most people ...
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View Post: Lassa Fever Symptoms
16 Sep 2009 by admin  
Lassa Fever is a zoonotic disease which means animals are the source or reservior of the infection. Rats are meant as the host of the virus and the virus spreads from person to person via urine, feces, saliva, vomitus, or blood. ...
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View Post: Licking Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone » iA Notebook » £25000 ...
1 Oct 2009 by admin  
An education programme is also to be delivered which will teach local people how to prevent and detect Lassa Fever and other diseases such as malaria and TB, as well as what to do should they become infected. ...
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View Post: Dan Agin: Book Review: Viruses, Plagues, and History
5 Nov 2009 by Dan Agin  
In 17 chapters, the author gives the non-specialist reader a complete account of viruses and virus-caused plagues such as smallpox, yellow fever, measles, polio, hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, ebola, hantavirus, SARS, West Nile Virus, ...
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View Post: Iranian scientist wins New Innovator Award
24 Oct 2009 by Ammaar ibn Walid  
Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, which was first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria. Outbreaks of the disease have been observed in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Central ...
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View Post: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Clinical Trial: Treatment of Viral ...
7 Oct 2009
This is a Phase 2 study of the safety and efficacy of Intravenous (IV) Ribavirin in treating patients presenting with a probable or suspected case of viral hemorrhagic fever (either Crimean Congo or Lassa Fever) at a military medical ...
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View Post: Wanted for Mass Murder: Barack Obama, Dr Margaret Chan, & Dr ...
3 Nov 2009 by rj  
They included: smallpox, EEE and WEE, AHF, Hantavirus, BHF, Lassa fever, glanders, melioidosis, plague, yellow fever, psittacosis, typhus, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever (RVF), CHIKV, late blight of potato, rinderpest, ...
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View Post: An interview with the Minister and our comments
21 Oct 2009 by Chikwe Ihekweazu  
The country recorded a number of epidemics in the course of the last one year notable among which are those of CSM, Lassa Fever, Measles and Cholera. The Federal Government ahead of the outbreak of the epidemics issued alerts to the ...
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View Post: lassa fever reported in germany
5 Sep 2009 by buildsstaff  
lassa fever is an acute viral illness caused by lassa virus. the disease is endemic in west african countries of guinea, liberia, sierra leone and nigeria. the virus reservoir is the wild rodent in west africa. when humans get infected, ...
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View Post: vaccine against lassa fever works in monkeys
7 Sep 2009 by attractform  
dr. heinz feldmann of the public health agency of canada, says that lassa fever poses a huge public health threat in western africa, and while the mortality rate of the virus is not as high as with some viral hemorrhagic fevers, ...
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