Lassa fever is a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus. Laser therapy was effective in preventing the progression of the deadly virus in nonhuman primates up to eight days after infection, finds a new study in i Nature Medicine/i.
The virus, for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments, infects hundreds of thousands of people every year and is estimated to kill approximately 34 percent of those infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Lassa fever is a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus. Laser therapy was effective in preventing the progression of the deadly virus in nonhuman primates up to eight days after infection, finds a new study in i Nature Medicine/i.
The virus, for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments, infects hundreds of thousands of people every year and is estimated to kill approximately 34 percent of those infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....