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Climate-driven rodent infection dynamics align with Lassa fever seasonality in humans

2025-10-15

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Lassa fever (LF), caused by Lassa mammarenavirus (LASV), imposes a major public health burden in West Africa. The Natal multimammate mouse ( Mastomys natalensis , MN) is the principal reservoir, yet the extent to which host dynamics shape human outbreaks remains unclear. Leveraging long-term MN capture-mark-recapture data from Tanzania ( N =20,249 captures, 1994–2023) and daily climate records, we quantify the dem...

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Literature Corpus work: 8163163e-cb49-5425-8137-02597466b09d
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.14.25337974

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