Nigeria’s Lassa fever deaths hit 164 – NCDC

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Nigeria’s Lassa fever deaths hit 164 – NCDC

Lassa virus is transmitted to man by infected multi-mammate rats and humans become infected from direct contact with the urine and faeces of the rat carrying the virus.

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Currently in his 13th term in Congress, Edolphus Towns is a Democratic Representative from the State of New York. Towns was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina on July 21, 1934, and attended the public schools of Chadbourn before graduating with a B.S. degree from North Carolina Agricultural and

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(1792) Prince Hall, “A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge”

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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”

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(1970) Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, “I Am For the Equal Rights Amendment.”

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