Lassa Facts

• Lassa started in Lassa, Nigeria
• Came from the multimammate mouse
• Discovered in 1969
• Fatality Rate is ten percent
• Symptoms usually appear ten days after infection 
• Initial Symptoms are fever and malaise
• In West Africa 500,000 cases resulted in 5000 deaths
• Breathing in tiny particles is the most common way to get infected
• Strain of the Old World virus
• Incubation Period is five to twenty one days 

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