Lassa fever overview: symptoms, transmission, treatment, vaccine challenges, public health responses, and travel precautions ...

"Lassa fever is a potentially life-threatening viral disease," Dr. Albert Ko, the Raj and Indra Nooyi professor of public ...

An Iowa resident is dead after contracting the rare Ebola-like disease Lassa fever. Here's everything you need to know about ...

“This is a difficult time for the family of this individual ... to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever are diagnosed per annum. Roughly 5,000 deaths related to the virus occur every year.

A middle-aged Iowa resident has died from Lassa fever, according to an alert from the Iowa Department of Health & Human ...

The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

"This is a difficult time for the family of this individual and I want to express our ... About 80% of people who become ...

An Iowa resident who returned to the United States from travel to West Africa died Monday of a rare hemorrhagic fever, health ...

The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...

Though the outbreak is largely under control, officials report sporadic cases, the latest a contact of an earlier patient.

Lassa fever is "an acute viral hemorrhagic ... told ABC News. "The virus, which is in this class of family called arenaviruses, is harbored by rats, and rats specifically in the western part ...