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What are the enviromental factors of lassa fever?
The reservoir for Lassa Fever is a common mouse found in Africa. Contact with feces or urine from the mouse can let the virus enter the human body.
Where is the lassa virus normally found?
Lassa Fever virus is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its reservoir is a common mouse found in that region.
What microbe causes lassa fever?
Lassa virus (LASV) causes Lassa fever. It's an arenavirus.
What is the mortality of lassa fever?
One in 100 patients with Lassa Fever die. 80% of pregnant women in the last trimester with Lassa Fever die.
What gram stain is lassa fever?
Lassa fever is a virus. It does not have a gram stain characteristic.
What viruses are related to Lassa Fever?
The virus families most closely related to Lassa Fever virus are the arenaviruses, as well as bunyaviridae and orthomyxoviridae. Lassa Fever virus is in the aernavirus family.
Is lassa fever communicable?
Lassa fever is communicable. It's spread primarily via fecal oral route, though transmission by breast milk has been reported.
What is the age you can be to get lassa fever?
Patients of any age can get Lassa Fever. It is most fatal in women late in pregnancy.
When was lassa fever prevalent?
Lassa Fever is prevalent today. A half million Africans are infected each year.
What is laser-fever?
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What is the word for African fever?
LASSA
Lassa fever is what?
Lassa fever is an acute viral disease first encountered in 1969 in the Nigerian town of Lassa. The disease is endemic in West African countries, causing many deaths
