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What causes Lassa Fever?

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From exposure to Lassa Virus, a one stranded RNA virus that originates in animals and gets transmitted to humans.
Lassa Fever can be contracted by person to person contact or from touching contaminated objects such as urine and droppings from the Mastomys rodent.

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