Lassa Fever — Worldwide/Unknown
A U.S. traveler who recently returned from West Africa has died in a New Jersey hospital of Lassa Fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever rarely seen in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Monday night [25 May 2015].
The unidentified traveler landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport [New York, NY] 17 May [2015], flying from Liberia via Morocco. He had no fever or symptoms during the flight, nor when he was screened at the airport upon
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