Historical Lassa fever reports and 30-year clinical update

Abe M Macher; Martin S Wolfe

doi:10.3201/eid1205.050052

Historical Lassa fever reports and 30-year clinical update

Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 May;12(5):835-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1205.050052.

Authors

Abe M Macher¹, Martin S Wolfe

Affiliation

¹ US Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. [email protected]

Abstract

Five cases of Lassa fever have been imported from West Africa to the United States since 1969. We report symptoms of the patient with the second imported case and the symptoms and long-term follow-up on the patient with the third case. Vertigo in this patient has persisted for 30 years.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect / methods
Follow-Up Studies
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / etiology
Humans
Lassa Fever / complications
Lassa Fever / diagnosis
Lassa Fever / epidemiology
Lassa Fever / pathology*
Lassa virus / isolation & purification
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
United States
Vertigo / etiology