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Ep #15: Lassa Fever with Dr Solomon Chollom (Infectious Diseases Expert)
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Introducing The Lassa Fever- a disease most of us haven't heard of. Afflicting more than half a million people in the West Africa region, this disease was first studied in 1969, and discovered in the town of Lassa, Nigeria. It is fatal in over 1% of all cases. This unique virus spreads to humans from the African rat and despite its extremely infectious nature has gotten very little attention. In fact, few outside West Africa have even heard of it.
In this episode, we get Infectious Diseases Expert, Dr Solomon Chollom to talk to us about the disease. Dr Chollom is among the very few experts on the Lassa Fever. We also discuss the future of Infectious Disease prevention, vaccine development, the brain drain in Africa, how to prevent future pandemics and how different governments will think differently about healthcare post Covid-19.
Dr Solomon Chollom is a Medical Virologist who has been at the forefront in Covid-19 Management in Nigeria and Africa. He is an African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow 2016-2018, an AITRP Fogarty Fellow 2014-2015, and an avid Liverpool fan.
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