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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Medical and Health Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJMH</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-1521</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10172</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Epidemiology</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Lassa Virus Vaccines: A Critical Tool for Saving Lives, Strengthening Economies, and Enhancing Global Pandemic Preparedness</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="239" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Basilia Ezeigwe</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>University of Lagos, Lagos</institution><country>Nigeria</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-25"><day>25</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2024</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><elocation-id>V2-I2-2024</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-11-15"><day>15</day><month>11</month><year iso-8601-date="2024">2024</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2024-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2024"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2024-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2024"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2024 Basilia Ezeigwe Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Basilia Ezeigwe</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJMH/currentissue/lassa-virus-vaccines-a-critical-tool-for-saving-lives-strengthening-economies-and-enhancing-global-pandemic-preparedness"/><abstract><p>The infectious hemorrhagic disease known as Lassa fever, which is native to West Africa, continues to pose a serious risk to public health and has far-reaching societal and economic consequences. There is no human-use vaccination for this virus, even though it keeps popping up. The creation of vaccinations against the Lassa virus is discussed in this article as a crucial measure to reduce casualties, lessen financial losses, and strengthen international readiness for a pandemic. This study highlights the need to invest globally in Lassa virus vaccine research and distribution by looking at vaccine candidates being developed, their possible economic advantages, and their role in improving healthcare systems. Looking forward to future global health policies, the research emphasises the significance of vaccinations within the framework of pandemic preparation, learning from the experiences of COVID-19.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Lassa virus</kwd><kwd> Lassa fever</kwd><kwd> Vaccine development</kwd><kwd> Non-invasive diagnosis</kwd><kwd> Public health</kwd><kwd> Economic stability</kwd><kwd> Pandemic preparedness</kwd><kwd> Viral hemorrhagic fever</kwd><kwd> Ensemble classifier</kwd><kwd> Emerging infectious diseases</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>No grants from public, commercial, or non-profit funding agencies supported the research, authorship, or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>There are no data available for sharing in this work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare the absence of any conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>All study-related tasks, from conception and design to data analysis and manuscript creation, were solely managed by the author.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>No grants from public, commercial, or non-profit funding agencies supported the research, authorship, or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>No specific software or tools were used in the research.</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>My gratitude goes to those who assisted in this study and manuscript preparation, and to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive insights.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>-</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
