Point-of-care ultrasound #POCUS is possibly a promising low-cost imaging technique to manage most-at-risk #Lassa Fever patients.
Check out this study by @CyrilErameh @ISTH_Irrua & @infektiodoc @UKEHamburg & al. @BNITM_de publ. in the #Journal_of_Infection:
http://bit.ly/3mLHgbX
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RT @infektiodoc
Can point-of-care ultrasound be a helpful tool in the management of Lassa fever patients? – a 🧵 1/9

#POCUS
#Lassafever🐀🦠🤒
#Nigeria 🇳🇬

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RT @Chikwe_I
This paper describes the first well-designed prospective cohort study on #LassaFever.

Thanks to excellent scientists & colleagues in Benin Republic, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria & Sierra Leone and thanks to @CEPIvaccines for support

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283643

Enjoy EID journal’s podcast, Influence of Landscape Patterns on Exposure to #LassaFever Virus, Guinea. Listen online at
#CDC
https://bit.ly/40pX3Ml

New research article in The Lancet>

Immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability of a recombinant measles-vectored #LassaFever vaccine: a randomised, placebo-controlled, first-in-human trial

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2823%2900048-X/fulltext

#Ghana #ghananews #LassaFever #news #Zoonitic #ZoonoticVirus #Africa #WestAfrica #AfricanRat #Consumption #Rich #Food #Eating #Disease

https://tbhenry.medium.com/ghana-confirms-2-cases-of-lassa-fever-its-zoonotic-like-covid-19-it-s-spread-by-african-rats-which-f01374a0ec6f

Dr Mirjam Groger @BNITM_de is awarded the #WolfgangStillePreis 2022! The @PaulEhrlichGes honours her & an international cross institutional research team @ISTH_Irrua @UKEHamburg @unihh for their clinical studies on the medical treatment of #Lassafever.
👉🏾http://bit.ly/3xnLpVm

RT @vinodscaria@twitter.com

🔴 #LassaFever spreads in #Nigeria
The toll climbs to 244 cases and 37 deaths in the first 3 weeks of 2023 alone.
https://punchng.com/ondo-edo-lead-as-lassa-fever-cases-rise/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vinodscaria/status/1619920024143269889

RT @bactiman63@twitter.com

#Lassafever case confirmed in #Guinea #Africa http://outbreaknewstoday.com/lassa-fever-case-confirmed-in-guinea-84474/

I don't know about you, but I LOVE a #freebie ,and @Tech_Networks has delivered! 👇✨

By joining this #webinar you'll hear the lessons learned by emergency clinicians, GPs, virologists, infection specialists & public health doctors dealing with #LassaFever in 2022 ✨

https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/webinars/lassa-fever-a-uk-outbreak-in-2022-367162

After nearly 400 confirmed infections and 100 deaths, the spread of #Lassafever in #Nigeria 🇳🇬 is beginning to slow but the epidemic is far from contained,the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control have warned