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  • Ghana: Lassa fever reported in the Eastern and Ashanti regions

    Source: http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.706389

    Dec 19, 2011 at 5:25pm
    Strange fever attacks Ashanti & Eastern regions

    The Public Health Directorate at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has set up a committee to investigate the outbreak of a disease known as Lassa fever in the Eastern and Ashanti regions...

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    Re: Ghana: Lassa fever reported in the Eastern and Ashanti regions

    Strange disease kills two in Amansie West District

    From: Ghana l Joy News Last Updated: December 19, 2011, 10:30 pm

    A strange disease is said to have killed two persons in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region.

    Laffa viral hemorrhagic fever has symptoms similar to malaria but causes victims to bleed to death.

    It is highly contagious and passed on from infected rodents like mice.

    ?About two months ago, a young man of 19 years came to our health centre here and complained of malaria, so we treated him for malaria but suddenly, blood started coming from the nose, the mouth, the anus and the ears, and immediately he died ?it is the first of it?s kind in Ghana,? Municipal Director of Health in the Amansie West District, Dominic Brobbey told Joy News.

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