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 health at the Yale School of Public Health, told ABC News. "The virus, which ...

The virus is normally carried by infected rodents and spread to humans through contact with urine or droppings ...

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it had confirmed a middle-aged, unnamed eastern Iowa ...

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

Nigeria has recorded 1,035 confirmed cases of Lassa fever out of 8,569 suspected cases, and 174 deaths in 28 states across ...

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 ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has disclosed that it has recorded no fewer than 174 Lassa fever ...

Lassa Fever, an acute viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) caused by the Lassa virus, primarily spreads through contact ... it ...

A middle-aged patient has died from Lassa fever, according to an alert from a state health department. Here's what you need ...

“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.