A patient has died in Bedfordshire after being found to have Lassa fever, the UK Health Security Agency has said, as the confirmed case brought the total number of people diagnosed with the disease in England to three.
The death comes less than 48 hours after it emerged that two people had been diagnosed with the potentially deadly infectious disease and a third “probable” case was under investigation. In an update on Friday, the UKHSA said the “probable” case had now been confirmed and had died.
