DISEASE NAME:
Lassa fever
CATEGORY:
Vectorborne
Lassa fever
Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever. It is endemic in parts of West Africa including Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The reservoir of Lassa virus is the multimammate rat (Mastomys genus).
Information, Data and Reports for Lassa fever
Ireland’s specialist service for the surveillance of communicable diseases.