Lassa fever in post-conflict sierra leone.

• Main Authors: Jeffrey G Shaffer (Author), Donald S Grant (Author), John S Schieffelin (Author), Matt L Boisen (Author), Augustine Goba (Author), Jessica N Hartnett (Author), Danielle C Levy (Author), Rachael E Yenni (Author), Lina M Moses (Author), Mohammed Fullah (Author), Mambo Momoh (Author), Mbalu Fonnie (Author), Richard Fonnie (Author), Lansana Kanneh (Author), Veronica J Koroma (Author), Kandeh Kargbo (Author), Darin Ottomassathien (Author), Ivana J Muncy (Author), Abigail B Jones (Author), Megan M Illick (Author), Peter C Kulakosky (Author), Allyson M Haislip (Author), Christopher M Bishop (Author), Deborah H Elliot (Author), Bethany L Brown (Author), Hu Zhu (Author), Kathryn M Hastie (Author), Kristian G Andersen (Author), Stephen K Gire (Author), Shervin Tabrizi (Author), Ridhi Tariyal (Author), Mathew Stremlau (Author), Alex Matschiner (Author), Darryl B Sampey (Author), Jennifer S Spence (Author), Robert W Cross (Author), Joan B Geisbert (Author), Onikepe A Folarin (Author), Christian T Happi (Author), Kelly R Pitts (Author), F Jon Geske (Author), Thomas W Geisbert (Author), Erica Ollmann Saphire (Author), James E Robinson (Author), Russell B Wilson (Author), Pardis C Sabeti (Author), Lee A Henderson (Author), S Humarr Khan (Author), Daniel G Bausch (Author), Luis M Branco (Author), Robert F Garry (Author), Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Lassa fever (LF), an often-fatal hemorrhagic disease caused by Lassa virus (LASV), is a major public health threat in West Africa. When the violent civil conflict in Sierra Leone (1991 to 2002) ended, an international consortium assisted in restoration of the LF program at Kenema Governme...