Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences
- 27 November 2003
- Vol. 327 (7426), 1271-1275
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1271
Abstract
Lassa fever is endemic in west Africa, where it probably kills several thousand people each year. With access to the region improving, the opportunity, and the need, to improve our understanding of this disease are increasingKeywords
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