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Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance

25 Sep 2018

Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help...

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New model could help improve prediction of outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa fever

02 Sep 2016

Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by...

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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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