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Lassa Fever -
Fact Sheet No 179 April 2000 LASSA FEVER
Lassa fever is an acute viral illness of one to four weeks duration caused
by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family of viruses. The disease
was first ...
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CDC:
SPB: Teaching Materials: Lassa Fever Slide set -
Homepage for Special
Pathogens Branch, CDC. Comprehensive information: viral hemorrhagic fevers
(VHF): Ebola, Lassa, hantaviruses, etc.; fact sheets, teaching aids,
research.
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CDC: SPB: Disease Information: Fact Sheets: Lassa Fever -
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Lassa fever outbreak continues in Sierra Leone, Africa -
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Lassa
Fever: Description, Vector, Mechanism, Symptoms, Mortality Rates -
Description. An extremely virulent, often fatal, Old-World, viral
hemorrhagic illness. Lassa fever, an arenavirus, is an enveloped,
single-stranded, bisegmented RNA virus. As with other arenaviruses, Lassa
virus does not have a conventional negative...
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Suspected Lassa fever, UK -
CSR Home Outbreak news Disease info
Surveillance Disease Outbreaks Reported 13 March 2000 Suspected Lassa
fever in United Kingdom A suspected , imported case of Lassa fever has
been reported from the ....
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Imported Lassa
Fever in Germany: Molecular Characterization of a New... -
...Research Imported
Lassa Fever in Germany: Molecular...West Africa where Lassa fever has not
been reported...high death rates. Lassa fever is endemic in West...West
Africa where Lassa fever has not ....
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Lassa Fever -
Lassa Fever - No Summary.
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Lassa Fever CCHF Management -
Lassa Fever CCHF Management Ribavirin.
Treatment. 30 mg/kg IV single loading dose. 16 mg/kg IV q 6 hr for 4 days.
8 mg/kg IV q 8hr for 6 days. Prophylaxis. 500 mg PO q 6 hr for 7 days.
Note:...
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Lassa Fever -
Lassa Fever. rodent-borne in West Africa.
nosocomial: exposure to body fluids. pharyngitis with exudate,
hypotension, cough, abd pain, edema and effusions, lymphadenopathy.
hemorrhage not common...
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MDTravel Health - Lassa Fever -
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information, updated daily, for physicians and travelers.
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Lassa
Fever -
Infectious Disease: Virus: Arenavirus Lassa
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