Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
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Two Novel Arenaviruses Detected in Pygmy Mice, Ghana
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![Lassa virus risk map of Ghana showing 10 numbered study sites adapted from Fichet-Calvet and Rogers, Model 3 (1). Red areas indicate high predicted risk for Lassa fever and green areas indicate low predicted risk. Solid black lines and letters indicate vegetation zones: a) Guinea savanna woodland; b) moist semideciduous forest; c) tropical rainforest.](/eid/images/12-1491-F1.jpg)
Figure 1. . . Lassa virus risk map of Ghana showing 10 numbered study sites adapted from Fichet-Calvet and Rogers, Model 3 (1). Red areas indicate high predicted risk for Lassa fever and green areas indicate low predicted risk. Solid black lines and letters indicate vegetation zones: a) Guinea savanna woodland; b) moist semideciduous forest; c) tropical rainforest.
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