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FIVE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT LASSA FEVER

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It was discovered in Nigeria in 1969 in Borno state. It got its name from a town called lassa it is also an hemorrhagic disease in the sense that it causes bleeding of blood vessels like ebola. The disease does not yet have a vaccine the virus has an incubation period of six to twenty one days