Askira/Uba
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askira-uba-163-16597529
title:
Askira/Uba
text:
Askira/Uba is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Askira. It has an area of 2,362 km and a population of 138,091 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 601. One of the villages of Askira/Uba, Lassa, was the origin of a new virus found in the blood of returning American missionaries, and first identified by a virology research team in a laboratory at Yale University, who named it "Lassa virus" after the location where it first appeared
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Local Government Area in Borno State, Nigeria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askira/Uba
date created:
2009-10-25T08:14:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:23:27Z
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