Lassafeveris an animal-borne viral illness that spreads through rats. It is an endemic that majorly affects people living in western Africa. About 300,000 cases of Lassa fever are identified, out of which about 5000 deaths are recorded, yearly. The disease can have mild symptoms but, sometime...
FEVER ALERT; EXCLUSIVE Fears for Student with Deadly Lassa SymptomsByline: By JANE HAMILTONSunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
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For pregnant people, symptoms also include fever and flu-like symptoms. While the symptoms are usually milder, and some pregnant people never even experience symptoms, the infection can harm the baby, leading to "miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newb...
Eleven people have died in Rwanda from the highly contagiousMarburg virus, and 36 cases have been confirmed, the country's health ministryreportedTuesday, just days after the country declared an outbreak of thedeadly hemorrhagic feverthat has no authorized vaccine or treatment. ...
Introduction: The recent examples of newly emerged diseases that causes alarming situation globally include H1N1, Congo Hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus diseases, Nipah Virus Infection, Lassa Fever and newly declared global emergency pandemic SARS nCOVID-19 infection. Since its emergence, it has spread ...
A Neuro-Fuzzy Case Based Reasoning Framework for Detecting Lassa Fever Based on Observed Symptomsdoi:10.11648/J.AJAI.20190301.12Samuel Ekene NnebeNora Augusta Ozemoya OkohAdetokunbo Mac Gregor John-OtumuEmmanuel Osaze OshoiribhorScience Publishing Group...
Leaky gut refers to the concept of relative intestinal permeability, or the ability for things to move through the intestinal lining. "Your intestines are part of your digestive system that is about 25 feet long, that has a strong protective lining inside it that prevents food, digestive juice...
The arenaviruses cause the diseases Lassa fever (occurring in Africa), Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever. Hantaviruses, Rift Valley fever virus (genus phlebovirus), and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (genus nairo...
Connor notes that other scientists have found similar early immune responses in monkeys exposed to Lassa and humans exposed to influenza. Scientists still need to tease out more specific details of the human response to Ebola. "We looked at the most obvious things, which is this very loud innat...