1970 FRAME, John Davidson (1917 – 2008)

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.

An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.

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1970 BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005); CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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