date:Jul 25, 2012
ns out there that in the right circumstances may be spread by food or water, Bausch said. Among these are Lassa fever, Rotavirus, Ebola, Hepatitis E and Nipah virus.
The following is a brief description of each of them:
- Lassa fever: An acute viral illness, endemic in West Africa, infects 100,000 to 300,000 a year, causing 5,000 deaths. Reservoir or host for virus is a small rodent.
- Rotavirus: A double-stranded RNA virus, it is he most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and c