Lassa fever and COVID‐19 in Africa: A double crisis on the fragile health system
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa, Eleni Xenophontos, Parvathy Mohanan, Esther Edet Bassey, Shoaib Ahmad, Mohammad Yasir Essar
Abstract
Since the disease can progresses in serious cases to pharynx inflammation, conjunctivitis, abdominal pains, diarrhoea, vomiting and clinical manifestations that range from facial drops to respiratory symptoms, loss of hearing, acute hemorrhagic fever, multiple-organ failure, foetal loss and death, 1,2 that under and misdiagnosis is a problem as early diagnosis
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