Lassa fever controls need to consider human-human transmission and role of super spreaders
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
One in five cases of Lassa fever -- a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa -- could be due to human-to-human transmission, with a large proportion of these cases caused by 'super-spreaders,' according to new research.