Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Geographical drivers and climate-linked dynamics of Lassa fever in Nigeria

  • David W. Redding,
  • Rory Gibb,
  • Chioma C. Dan-Nwafor,
  • Elsie A. Ilori,
  • Rimamdeyati Usman Yashe,
  • Saliu H. Oladele,
  • Michael O. Amedu,
  • Akanimo Iniobong,
  • Lauren A. Attfield,
  • Christl A. Donnelly,
  • Ibrahim Abubakar,
  • Kate E. Jones,
  • Chikwe Ihekweazu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25910-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Lassa Fever is a rodent-borne viral haemorrhagic fever that is a public health problem in West Africa. Here, the authors develop a spatiotemporal model of the socioecological drivers of disease using surveillance data from Nigeria, and find evidence of climate sensitivity.