Lassa fever is a deadly viral hemorrhagic illness that lowers the platelet count in the blood and its ability to clot, ...

The 62-year-old is part of a group of researchers tracking the deadly Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic illness endemic in several West African countries and transmitted by infected rats.

Lassa fever burden in West Africa ten times higher than previously thought – study Potential new variants could increase human and economic costs ...

It was thought to live only in some multimammate rats, the most common rodent in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly all human infections of Lassa fever come from animals, and people very rarely infect other ...

The sale of such chickens, public health physicians and epidemiologists said, posed a potential risk for a Lassa fever outbreak in the state, as the infected rats could transmit the virus to the ...

A promising Lassa fever vaccine shows potential to prevent severe disease and death in animals. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, in ...

He noted that the two other platforms in development for Lassa fever are both based on live viral vectors, "which come with their own safety issues," he says. "Our vaccine is a deactivated or ...

A Southern Indiana father was found guilty on three felony charges after his 6-month-old son “nearly died,” according to prosecutors, after suffering more than 50 untreated rat bites at the ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has confirmed a total of 168 deaths, including 17 probable, due to Lassa fever between January and August 2024. This represents a case ...