Some people eat Mastomys, and they may catch Lassa virus this way. While the virus does not spread easily between people, it can be transferred through blood, saliva, urine or semen.

Mastomys rodents occupy a valuable niche in biomedical research, but there is very little published information regarding how to care for them in the laboratory. Here we provide information about ...

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Mastomys rats, like this one, will be tested for Lassa virus in Sierra Leone as part of a pathogen-prevention project. (Getty Images) Predicting the emergence of highly pathogenic viruses in animals ...

Lassa fever is zoonotic disease that is part of the Arenaviridae family, with the Mastomys rodent as its primary reservoir | Photo Credit: Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org ...

Some people eat Mastomys, and they may catch Lassa virus this way. While the virus does not spread easily between people, it can be transferred through blood, saliva, urine or semen.

Lassa fever, an animal-borne or zoonotic, acute viral illness spread by the common African rat also known as the mastomys rat species, is endemic in Nigeria and some other West African countries.

This viral illness is spread by a rat (Mastomys natalensis) found in parts of West Africa. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lassa fever can be deadly.

Some people eat Mastomys, and they may catch Lassa virus this way. While the virus does not spread easily between people, it can be transferred through blood, saliva, urine or semen.