Lassa fever is primarily spread by rats found in West Africa, the CDC says.
In this March 6, 2018, file photo, a sign about Lassa fever is displayed at the Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria.An Iowa resident has died after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever, health officials said.
In this undated file photo, a health worker holds a rodent during an outbreak of Lassa Fever in the village of Serabu near Kenema, Sierra Leone.The first documented case was identified in 1969 in Lassa, Nigeria, which gave the illness its name, the CDC said. "It's not airborne. It's not like COVID," Dr Robert Murphy, a professor of infectious diseases at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told ABC News. ", it has to be a fluid. … So, you don't have to worry about being in the same room with somebody, but you have to be worried if you have been touching that person or dealing with that person and being exposed to any fluids that they have.
Less than 1% of people who contract Lassa fever die. However, of those who become seriously ill and are hospitalized, the mortality rate is about 15%.
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