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...discovery of a new disease is always exciting," Dr. John D. Frame told the New York Society of Tropical Medicine, "especially when it proves to be as contagious, lethal and apparently widespread as Lassa fever...
Such adjectives, coming from a Columbia University professor, sounded unscientifically hyperbolic. In fact, they represented an understatement of the facts. When Dr. Frame, an assistant professor of tropical medicine at Columbia, reported his findings late last month, Lassa fever had already proved so deadly that one of the world's most expert virologists had fallen ill of the disease, a lab assistant and two nurses had died of it, and research with the virus had been abandoned until more exacting safety precautions could be devised...
Frame has been concerned for 17 years with the medical care of missionaries, many of them working in Africa. He has been struck repeatedly by the number reported each year to have died from fever of unknown origin, despite proper treatment for such diseases as malaria and typhus. Frame suspected that some of these mysterious fevers might be caused by still unrecognized viruses, so he arranged to get blood specimens from returning missionaries and from sick missionaries still in Africa. His reasoning: the viruses would have left indelible footprints, in the form of antibodies, in their victims' blood...
...Lassa, a sun-baked herdsmen's village (pop. 1,000) in western Nigeria, Nurse Laura Wine of the Church of the Brethren Mission fell ill. She suffered fever and pain in her joints, and developed small red blotches on her skin and ulcers in her throat and mouth. Nurse Wine was flown to a larger mission hospital at Jos, in centra] Nigeria. There she died within 30 hours, but not until Nurse Charlotte Shaw had used her finger and a swab to cleanse the mouth ulcers. Nurse Shaw had nicked her finger earlier in the day while cutting roses...
...Frame. Head Nurse Lily Pinneo cared for her, but within eleven days Nurse Shaw was dead. Three days after that, Nurse Pinneo fell ill. She had throat ulcers, and her fever rose...