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LASSALipid and Atherosclerosis Society of Southern Africa
LASSALarge Area Silicon Strip Array (chemistry)
LASSALebanese Association for School Safety Awareness (est. 2005; Lebanon)
LASSALibrary Assistants, Support Staff and Associates
LASSALicensed Animal Slaughters & Salvage Association


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This is the one - along with Lassa fever, Green Monkey Disease and other such "exotics" - that has public health professionals the world over really very scared.
But this photograph of 1976, taken from the Chronicle archives, shows medical staff at Newcastle General Hospital prepared for an outbreak of Lassa fever, which has no known cure.
Doctors suspected he had contracted an arenavirus, a highly contagious group of viruses that includes Lassa fever, an infection endemic to west Africa that typically spreads to humans from proximity to rodents or from infected people's secretions.
 
 
 
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