Lassa fever controls need to consider human to human transmission and the role of ‘super spreaders’, say researchers
15 January 2015One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to human-to-human transmission, with a large proportion of these cases caused by ‘super-spreaders’, according to research published today in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
