Санитарная охрана территории от завоза и распространения особо опасных вирусных инфекций. Сообщение 5. Лихорадка Ласса

Analysis of the situation with Lassa fever (LF) in accordance with the previously offered signs and characters, criteria and categories, actual for sanitary protection of territories from particularly dangerous viral infections (PDVI), showed LF to be a contagious PDVI classified as pathogenicity group I, capable of epidemic expansion. In case of LF import to a non-endemic territory, the maximal volume of anti-epidemic measures is recommended to be accomplished because epidemiologic complications may emerge even with the advent of an individual case of the disease.