Lassa fever - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018

Surveillance report
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2018 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 10 September 2019.
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Lassa fever. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2018. Stockholm: ECDC; 2020.

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Executive Summary

No cases of Lassa fever or other viral haemorrhagic fevers caused by arenaviruses for were reported in the EU/EEA for 2018.