# Possible case of Lassa Fever at Emory Hospital in Atlanta

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**Created:** [March 13, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-case-of-lassa-fever-at-emory-hospital-in-atlanta/748839 "2016-03-13T05:20:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-case-of-lassa-fever-at-emory-hospital-in-atlanta/748839/1 "2016-03-13T05:20:48Z")

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This disease is nothing to fool around with, but it’s not as deadly as Ebola.

> **[Worker With Suspected Lassa Fever Treated in Atlanta](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/case-suspected-lassa-fever-reported-atlanta-n537261)**
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> Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has admitted a patient suspected of having Lassa fever who'd been working in Africa.

The patient is a physician’s assistant working for a missionary organization in Togo.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-case-of-lassa-fever-at-emory-hospital-in-atlanta/748839/2 "2016-03-15T05:33:26Z")

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I just went on Google looking for updates, and found none on the Emory patient but I did find out that yet another American missionary PA-C working in Togo died from Lassa Fever late last month in Germany. A German health-care contact is believed to also be infected; he was believed at first to have had malaria.

> **[Lassa fever death in Germany follow-up: Michigan missionary in Togo -...](http://outbreaknewstoday.com/lassa-fever-death-in-germany-follow-up-michigan-missionary-in-togo-86705/)**
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> UPDATE: Patient suspected of having Lassa fever arrives in Atlanta for treatment at Emory In a follow-up to a report on an individual who died in Cologne, Germany due to Lassa fever in late February,  various reports identify the victim as...

Turns out there’s also a big outbreak going on in Nigeria right now; hadn’t heard about it before.