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By | May 11, 2026

CEPI 3.0 and the Race to Develop the World’s First Lassa Fever Vaccine

Shalom David and Uwaifiokun Okhuarobo (Lead writers) Every dry season, the wards begin to fill. At Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo State and the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo State, two of Nigeria’s treatment centres for Lassa fever, clinicians recognise the pattern all too well. A farmer arrives with a persistent fever that […]

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