FIVE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT LASSA FEVER

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

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