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Housing in Kenema, Sierra Leone

Lassa fever controls need to consider human to human transmission and the role of ‘super spreaders’, say researchers

15 Jan 2015

One 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...

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Straw coloured fruit bat

Understanding the bushmeat market: why do people risk infection from bat meat?

09 Oct 2014

Ebola, as with many emerging infections, is likely to have arisen due to man’s interaction with wild animals – most likely the practice of hunting...

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