"Woeful" symptoms, 5,000 deaths a year, no vaccine... What is Lassa fever, of which one case was detected in Île-de-France?

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"Woeful" symptoms, 5,000 deaths a year, no vaccine... What is Lassa fever, of which one case was detected in Île-de-France?

According to the Pasteur Institute, this fever infects between 100,000 and 300,000 people a year and causes between 5,000 and 6,000 deaths.