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Health and economic impacts of Lassa vaccination campaigns in West Africa

2024-02-27

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Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having pandemic potential. This study estimates the health-economic burden of Lassa fever throughout West Africa and projects impacts of a series of vaccination campaigns. We also model the emergence of “Lassa-X” – a hypothetical pandemic Lassa virus variant – and project impacts of achieving 100 Days Mission vaccination targets...

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Literature Corpus work: 56d50d30-4b71-555e-9303-0542a0ec8e6e
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.26.24303394

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