Sat Oct 24, 2009
An Iranian scientist has been awarded the 2009 NIH Director's New Innovator Award for her research in host and pathogen evolution in Lassa fever.
Pardis C. Sabeti, an assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, is to use the funds to further her research and investigate the possible presence of inherent genetic immunity to the disease.
According to Ms. Sabeti, Lassa fever is "the most deadly disease known to man."
The fatality rate of the disease has so far been reduced from 70 percent to 15 percent in her research station in Irrua, Nigeria, as a result of effective drugs and advanced diagnosis techniques.
Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, which was first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria. Outbreaks of the disease have been observed in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Central African Republic.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/109494.html.
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