Man Dies Of Rare Illness, A man died of Lassa agitation at a hospital in New Jersey on Monday afterwards abiding from Liberia this month, bloom authorities announced.
Lassa agitation is a viral ache accepted in West Africa but rarely apparent in the United States. It can accept affection agnate to Ebola — diarrhea, airsickness and bleeding — but is beneath communicable and far beneath acceptable to be fatal. About 1 percent of Lassa patients die, compared to about 70 percent of Ebola patients.
The patient, who was not identified, catholic from Liberia to Morocco and accustomed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 17. The accommodating did not accept a agitation on abandonment from Liberia, the Centers for Ache Control and Prevention said, or any affection such as bleeding, diarrhea or vomiting. If he accustomed in the United States, his temperature was taken and again, he did not accept a fever.The next day, he went to a hospital in New Jersey with a abscessed throat, agitation and fatigue. The hospital, which bloom authorities did not identify, asked about his biking and he “did not announce biking to West Africa,” the C.D.C. said. The hospital again appear him.
He alternate on May 21 with deepening symptoms, according to the C.D.C. The hospital transferred him to a analysis centermost “prepared to amusement viral hemorrhagic fevers.”
Samples submitted to the C.D.C. activated absolute for Lassa agitation on Monday morning. Tests for Ebola and added viral hemorrhagic fevers were negative. The accommodating was in abreast if he died Monday evening, the C. D. C said.
The C.D.C. said it was alive with accessible bloom admiral to analyze bodies who had acquaintance with the patient. Those articular as abutting contacts will be monitored for 21 canicule to see if affection occur.
According to the C.D.C., the case in New Jersey is the sixth accepted accident of Lassa agitation in travelers abiding to the United States back 1969. Two others became accepted alone afterwards the patients had already recovered. The endure case was appear in Minnesota in 2014.
There has never been person-to-person manual of Lassa agitation accurate in the United States, the C.D.C. said. The virus is not transmitted through accidental contact, and patients are not believed to be communicable afore the access of symptoms. About 100,000 to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever, and 5,000 deaths accompanying to the illness, action in West Africa anniversary year.
In West Africa, Lassa virus is agitated by rodents and transmitted to bodies through acquaintance with urine or debris of adulterated rodents, the C.D.C. said.
In attenuate cases it can be transmitted through absolute acquaintance with a ailing person’s claret or actual fluids, through fungus membrane, or through animal contact.
Lassa agitation is a viral ache accepted in West Africa but rarely apparent in the United States. It can accept affection agnate to Ebola — diarrhea, airsickness and bleeding — but is beneath communicable and far beneath acceptable to be fatal. About 1 percent of Lassa patients die, compared to about 70 percent of Ebola patients.
The patient, who was not identified, catholic from Liberia to Morocco and accustomed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 17. The accommodating did not accept a agitation on abandonment from Liberia, the Centers for Ache Control and Prevention said, or any affection such as bleeding, diarrhea or vomiting. If he accustomed in the United States, his temperature was taken and again, he did not accept a fever.The next day, he went to a hospital in New Jersey with a abscessed throat, agitation and fatigue. The hospital, which bloom authorities did not identify, asked about his biking and he “did not announce biking to West Africa,” the C.D.C. said. The hospital again appear him.
He alternate on May 21 with deepening symptoms, according to the C.D.C. The hospital transferred him to a analysis centermost “prepared to amusement viral hemorrhagic fevers.”
Samples submitted to the C.D.C. activated absolute for Lassa agitation on Monday morning. Tests for Ebola and added viral hemorrhagic fevers were negative. The accommodating was in abreast if he died Monday evening, the C. D. C said.
The C.D.C. said it was alive with accessible bloom admiral to analyze bodies who had acquaintance with the patient. Those articular as abutting contacts will be monitored for 21 canicule to see if affection occur.
According to the C.D.C., the case in New Jersey is the sixth accepted accident of Lassa agitation in travelers abiding to the United States back 1969. Two others became accepted alone afterwards the patients had already recovered. The endure case was appear in Minnesota in 2014.
There has never been person-to-person manual of Lassa agitation accurate in the United States, the C.D.C. said. The virus is not transmitted through accidental contact, and patients are not believed to be communicable afore the access of symptoms. About 100,000 to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever, and 5,000 deaths accompanying to the illness, action in West Africa anniversary year.
In West Africa, Lassa virus is agitated by rodents and transmitted to bodies through acquaintance with urine or debris of adulterated rodents, the C.D.C. said.
In attenuate cases it can be transmitted through absolute acquaintance with a ailing person’s claret or actual fluids, through fungus membrane, or through animal contact.
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