Lassa Fever -- Nigeria
An outbreak of a fever similar to the Ebola virus has Nigeria on edge. Lassa fever has sickened at least 57 people and killed 34 since it broke out in Nigeria late last year [2015].
The disease is transmitted by rats [multimammate mice, [_Mastomys_ spp.], and in its later stages shares symptoms with Ebola, which killed over 11 000 people in West Africa after it broke out in 2013. Lassa fever, which is named after a town in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, sickens people who come into
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/1JRTXIh
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