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Suspected Lassa fever patient coming to Emory
By Andy Miller
Georgia Health News
6 hrs ago (0)
Emory University Hospital?s special infectious disease unit is awaiting a patient suspected of having Lassa fever, an acute viral disease indigenous to West Africa.
The patient?s diagnosis has not yet been confirmed. Emory said Friday that it will work with the CDC and Georgia Public Health officials to diagnose the patient, a physician assistant who has been working for a missionary organization in the nation of Togo.
The special medical isolation unit at the Atlanta hospital successfully treated four patients infected with the Ebola virus in 2014. Emory, in fact, was the first American facility ever to treat an Ebola patient...
Suspected Lassa fever patient coming to Emory
By Andy Miller
Georgia Health News
6 hrs ago (0)
Emory University Hospital?s special infectious disease unit is awaiting a patient suspected of having Lassa fever, an acute viral disease indigenous to West Africa.
The patient?s diagnosis has not yet been confirmed. Emory said Friday that it will work with the CDC and Georgia Public Health officials to diagnose the patient, a physician assistant who has been working for a missionary organization in the nation of Togo.
The special medical isolation unit at the Atlanta hospital successfully treated four patients infected with the Ebola virus in 2014. Emory, in fact, was the first American facility ever to treat an Ebola patient...
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