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Is lassa fever caused by a virus?
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Yes: The lassa fever virus is an arenavirus and one of the most frequent causes of viral hemorrhagic fever in africa.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Lassa Fever: Lassa fever virus is a single stranded RNA virus from the Arenavirdae virus family. Lassa fever is endemic in the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea & Nigeria. The Multimammate rat is it's animal vector. There are an average of 100,000 to 300,000 cases & 5,000 deaths from Lassa fever annually in West Africa.
Answered 10/5/2014
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