{"id":146174,"date":"2022-09-12T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lassa-fever-symptoms-of-ebola-like-virus-as-first-uk-death-confirmed"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:23:57","slug":"lassa-fever-symptoms-of-ebola-like-virus-as-first-uk-death-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lassa-fever-symptoms-of-ebola-like-virus-as-first-uk-death-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"Lassa Fever: Symptoms Of Ebola-like Virus As First UK Death Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lassa-fever-symptoms-of-ebola-like-virus-as-first-uk-death-confirmed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lassa fever is like ebola and there is an outbreak in Nigeria. It is transmissible through inhalation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The death of a patient in the UK suffering from Lassa fever has heightened concern around the illness after a third case was reported.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it was contacting individuals who had been in close contact with the infected patients after the death was confirmed last week.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the recent cases detected in the UK, which were linked to travel to west Africa, Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical advisor at UKHSA, said: Cases of Lassa fever are rare in the UK and it does not spread easily between people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lassa fever is like ebola and there is an outbreak in Nigeria. It is transmissible through inhalation. The death of a patient in the UK suffering from Lassa fever has heightened concern around the illness after a third case was reported. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it was contacting individuals who had been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}