Patient who died at UK hospital from Lassa fever was newborn baby – reports

Luton and Dunstable hospital has required some staff to quarantine for 14 days after the cases of Lassa fever were confirmed. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A patient in the UK who died last week from Lassa fever, an acute viral infection endemic in parts of Africa, was a newborn baby, according to reports.

The child, who died at the Luton and Dunstable hospital last week, was one of three confirmed cases of the disease all within the same family, the BBC reported.