Geographical drivers and climate-linked dynamics of Lassa fever in Nigeria

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 5759 - 10
• Main Authors: Redding, David W., Gibb, Rory, Dan-Nwafor, Chioma C., Ilori, Elsie A., Yashe, Rimamdeyati Usman, Oladele, Saliu H., Amedu, Michael O., Iniobong, Akanimo, Attfield, Lauren A., Donnelly, Christl A., Abubakar, Ibrahim, Jones, Kate E., Ihekweazu, Chikwe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.10.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/114/2397; 631/158/1469; 692/308/174; 692/699/255/2514; Animals; Climate; Climate variability; Disease Reservoirs - virology; Epidemiological Monitoring; Fever; Geographical distribution; Geography; Health planning; Health surveillance; Hemorrhagic fever; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Incidence; Lassa fever; Lassa Fever - epidemiology; Lassa Fever - transmission; Lassa Fever - virology; Lassa virus - pathogenicity; multidisciplinary; Murinae - virology; Nigeria - epidemiology; Poverty; Prediction models; Predictions; Public health; Retrospective Studies; Rodents; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Social factors; Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Surveillance; Urbanization; Nigeria; West Africa

Lassa fever is a longstanding public health concern in West Africa. Recent molecular studies have confirmed the fundamental role of the rodent host ( Mastomys natalensis ) in driving human infections, but control and prevention efforts remain hampered by a limited baseline understanding of the disea...