Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, in collaboration with the United ...

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 ...

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

A promising Lassa fever vaccine shows potential to prevent severe disease and death in animals.

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

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The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has warned of a looming surge in cases of Lassa fever in the country. The Director General of the NCDC, Dr ...

To date, several Lassa candidate vaccines are currently in development. However, out of these, Matthias Schnell, PhD, director of the Jefferson Center for Vaccines and Pandemic Preparedness at Thomas ...