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Lassa Fever
About Lassa Fever
Named after a Nigerian town where a missionary nurse died in 1969. Rats contaminating food spread it silently across West Africa. Around 300,000 infections a year. Survivors often keep permanent hearing loss. No licensed vaccine exists.
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