%0 Journal Article
%T Outbreak of lassa fever in Nigeria: measures for prevention and control
%J Archive of "The Pan African Medical Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.11604/pamj.2016.23.210.8923
%X Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic fever, extremely virulent and often infectious, occurs very frequently in different parts of Nigeria [1¨C4] and affects approximately 100,000-500,000 persons per year in West Africa [5, 6]. The illness was discovered in Lassa, Borno State where it was first reported. It is caused by the Lassa fever virus, a single stranded RNA virus belonging to the arenaviridae family [7, 8]
%K Lassa virus
%K haemorrhagic fever
%K mastomys natalensis
%K Nigeria
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907747/