Evidence against high contagiousness of Lassa fever

Lassa fever is considered to be a highly contagious disease with remarkable mortality. Nosocomial outbreaks have been described in Africa. The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization recommend very strict isolation and surveillance measures for suspected Lassa fever patients an...

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Published inTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Vol. 82; no. 2; p. 311
Main Authors Schlaeffer, Francise, Bar-Lavie, Yaron, Sikuler, Emanuel, Alkan, Michael, Keynan, Arie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 1988
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Lassa Fever - transmission
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Tropical viral diseases
Viral cardiopathies
Viral diseases
Infection
Human
Contagion
Lassa fever
Asia
Viral disease
Israel
Epidemiology
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Summary:Lassa fever is considered to be a highly contagious disease with remarkable mortality. Nosocomial outbreaks have been described in Africa. The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization recommend very strict isolation and surveillance measures for suspected Lassa fever patients and their contacts. This is a report of a patient with Lassa fever who was not diagnosed initially and therefore not isolated. Nevertheless, there was no clinical evidence of secondary infection among contacts, and no seroconversion occurred in 30 of them.
Bibliography:Correspondence: Dr F. Schlaeffer, Department of Medicine “B”, Soroka Medical Centre, P.O. Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel.
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ISSN:0035-9203
1878-3503
DOI:10.1016/0035-9203(88)90458-0