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Aid worker dies of lassa fever

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    British aid worker Ian Janeck, who contracted lassa fever while working in Sierra Leone, has died at a hospital in north London, the BBC reported on Thursday. He was evacuated from Freetown earlier in the month with suspected malaria or typhoid. Only 12 cases of lassa fever have been diagnosed in North America and Europe since the virus was identified some 30 years ago in Nigeria, the BBC said.

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