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UK Public Health Rapid Support Team Deploys to Nigeria
February 27, 2018
LONDON, England, Feb. 27 -- Public Health England issued the following news release:

The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), a joint run effort of Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is deploying to Nigeria to help control an outbreak of Lassa fever.

Nigeria is currently experiencing an unusually severe epidemic of Lassa fever - a viral haemorrhagic illness that is normally present in the country but on a lower sca . . .

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