TRIBUNNEWS.COM – For the first time in more than a decade, English to identify cases of fever Lassa.
Agency For Health Security English (UKHSA) reported, two people diagnosed with fever Lassa and the third case being examined.
Reported by The Guardian, one of the patients have been cured while one more person in the care of a specialist at the Royal Free London NHS.
The third case is still conjecture are also treated in the foundation Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS, said UKHSA.
The patient’s fever Lassa this is one of the family from the eastern region of the Uk and have recently traveled to west Africa.
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Fever Lassa is a viral hemorrhagic disease acute.
The disease can be transmitted by animals rodents to humans through food or items that have been contaminated with the urine or feces of an infected animal.
This Virus can also be spread through body fluids.
Those who live in the area of west Africa with a population of rodents in which the disease is endemic, the most at risk of developing fever Lassa.
Nevertheless, the case of imported fever Lassa fairly rare.
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