The NCDC says 155 people have died from Lassa fever in 2025, with 822 confirmed cases so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said the country has recorded 6,640 suspected and 822 confirmed ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, on Tuesday, said Nigeria has recorded 155 deaths from Lassa fever from January 1 to July 20, 2025.The Case Fatality Rate now stands at 18.9 per ...

So far in 2025, Nigeria has recorded 822 confirmed cases of Lassa fever across 21 states and 105 Local Government Areas ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the country has recorded 6,640 suspected and 822 confirmed cases of Lassa fever ...

The global Lassa fever market is rapidly growing, driven by demand for antiviral drugs and vaccines. Ribavirin remains the primary treatment, but new drugs like favipiravir are in trials, promising ...

Ondo State alone continues to bear the brunt of the outbreak, contributing 32 per cent of all confirmed Lassa fever cases ...

About 100,000 to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and 5,000 related deaths occur in West Africa each year, according to the CDC. The disease has an overall fatality rate of just 1%, according to the ...

Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic viral infection spread by rats in West Africa, according to Edward Liu, M.D., chief of infectious diseases at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

Lassa fever has a fatality rate of about 1% overall, but women who contract the disease late in pregnancy face an 80% chance of losing their child, or dying themselves. ‘New pandemic era’ ...

"Cases of Lassa fever are rare in the U.K. and it does not spread easily between people," Dr. Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the U.K. Health Security Agency, said in a statement Wednesday.

Lassa fever is not exactly common in the U.K. So if you tell your boss that you can’t make it to work because of Lassa fever, expect some follow-up to occur. The U.K. has had only eight reported ...