Modelling the Transmission Dynamics of the Lassa Fever Infection

Abstract

Lassa fever is an acute hemorrhagic zoonotic illness that usually last for days duration occurring mostly in West African countries. Lassa virus being zoonotic means that, transmission of the disease from infected animal to human is possible with the animal reservoir or host being a rodent of the genus Mastomys. Currently, an ongoing outbreak in Nigeria has spread to 19 States of the country. Statistical figures indicated that, out of suspected cases, has been confirmed with deaths of infected persons from Lassa fever in less than two months, giving a case fatality rate of.....

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