A person in the UK has died fron the rare rat-borne virus Lassa fever, with two other cases being investigated.
The UK Health Security Agency announced the third case today and said that it had proved fatal, with Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust then confirming the patient was in their care.
The cases were all from the same family in East England - where the group had recently returned home from a trip to West Africa, where the virus is most prominent.