# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aniru-conteh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:10.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aniru-conteh"
name: "Aniru Conteh"
slug: "aniru-conteh"
description: "Aniru Sahib Sahib Conteh was a Sierra Leonean physician and expert on the clinical treatment of Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to West Africa caused by the Lassa virus. Conteh studied medicine at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and taught at Ibadan Teaching Hospital. He later returned to Sierra Leone where he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Lassa fever program at Nixon Methodist Hospital in Segbwema, first as superintendent and then as clinical director."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aniru_Conteh_by_F._Jacquerioz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-08-06"
deathDate: "2004-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.24
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.007668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "أنيرو كونتيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniru_Conteh"
    title: "Aniru Conteh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniru_Conteh"
    title: "Aniru Conteh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%8B%88%EB%A3%A8_%EC%BD%98%ED%85%8C"
    title: "아니루 콘테"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E5%B0%BC%E9%AD%AF%C2%B7%E5%BA%B7%E7%89%B9"
    title: "安尼魯·康特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4765259"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump