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Lassa virus
- Lassa virus is a member of the virus family Arenaviridae, a single-stranded RNA virus.
- The virus is the causative agent of a hemorrhagic fever and can be transmitted between species (zoonotic).
- Discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died in Nigeria and today still occurs mainly in West Africa.
- Death rates are high for women in the third trimester of pregnancy.
- Fetal death (95%) occurs in uterus of infected pregnant mothers.
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