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Lassa Fever: Is This a Sign of The New Pandemic Era

Death From Rare Rat-Borne Virus Recorded in UK as Two Other Cases Probed

Three people from the same family in east England have been confirmed to have contracted Lassa fever after returning from a trip to West AFRICA. One has now died

Three Britons have been diagnosed with the virus that causes bleeding eyes and facial swelling – and it could be evidence of a changing world

The Telegraph 12 FEB 2022

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Just hours after Boris Johnson unveiled plans to lift all Covid regulations in England on Wednesday, an alert warned of a new disease threat facing Britain: two people had been diagnosed with Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola.

The pathogen – which is endemic in countries including Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana – is less deadly than other haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola or Marburg. But it is nasty, killing roughly 15 per cent of those who are hospitalised.

Symptoms of Lassa start gradually, with fever and malaise, and after a few days a headache, muscle pain and vomiting may kick in. In severe cases, the virus triggers facial swelling, fluid-filled lungs and intense bleeding from the eyes, nose and other orifices. As yet, there is no licensed vaccine and treatments are poor.

Lassa’s arrival in Britain, in travellers from West Africa, is highly unlikely to trigger a major outbreak – although scientists told The Telegraph to watch this space in the coming days. They would not elaborate, but it is possible a track and trace initiative will be launched, further cases announced or that there will be complications in the patients’ treatment.

“Fortunately, the virus is nowhere near as infectious as many other pathogens,” says Dr Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton. “While any Lassa cases within the UK are of concern, we won’t be seeing transmission on anything like the scale we have with the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Dr Head points to the reproduction (R) number, used to describe how many people each infected person passes a disease onto. For Lassa, this is estimated at between 1 and 1.6 – compared with around 3 for the original Wuhan Sars-Cov-2 strain. The more transmissible omicron variant has an R number as high as 12.

Certainly, you would be unlucky to catch the Lassa virus on a bus: unlike Covid, it spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluid of an infected person, or after contact with the urine or faeces of infected rats. As long as you were not sitting next to someone with it, there would be little cause for concern.

Lassa fever is endemic in AFRICA & other countries including Sierra Leone