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An Iowa resident is believed to have died from Lassa fever, a rarely seen virus in the US that causes one in three cases to suffer permanent hearing loss and 95% of infected pregnant women to miscarry.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting local health officials with identifying close contacts of the patient after they began exhibiting symptoms. The patient did not exhibit any symptoms while traveling, so fellow travelers are not being screened as their risk is “extremely low,” CDC officials said.
The infected individual — who returned to the US from West Africa earlier this month — had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center before their death.Lassa fever can cause permanent hearing loss and deafness among patients with both mild and severe cases. About 1 in 3 cases experience various levels of hearing loss, according to the CDC.
The illness cannot be spread before the infected is symptomatic or through casual contact like hugging or shaking hands.
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