Lassa fever

Lassa fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever, is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus. Many of those infected by the virus do not develop symptoms. When symptoms occur, they typically include fever, weakness, headaches, vomiting, and muscle pains. Less commonly, there may be bleeding from the mouth or gastrointestinal tract. The risk of death once infected is about one percent and frequently occurs within two weeks of the onset of symptoms. Of those who survive, about a quarter have hearing loss, which improves within three months in about half of these cases.

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• Lassa fever, like many other diseases can be transmitted when we are careless about our hygiene, such as not washing our hands, It would have been more useful if the Governor had focused more on hand washing than hand shaking.
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• This is the characteristic of the virus, just as the virus responsible for cold infection affects the cells of the respiratory tract, and hepatitis virus shows preference for liver cells, so you have viruses, such as Lassa fever and yellow fever affecting cells of many organs, which define the signs and symptoms of the disease.
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