Figure 1.

Map of Guinea showing the towns of interest, Kissidougou where the patient lived and Mamou where he died. Faranah, Macenta and Nzérékoré are the towns where Lassa virus sequences obtained from humans have been documented. The pink stars represent the locations of Lassa fever cases described in Henderson et al. 1972 [17], Bausch et al. 2001 [12] and this study.