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

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that the death toll from the ongoing Lassa fever ...

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.

This represents a case fatality rate of 18.7 per cent, which is higher than the 17.3 per cent recorded during the same period ...

Lassa fever has reached the US for the first time in a decade, in a case that has surprised health officials. The middle-aged patient in Iowa, who was not identified, died a 'short time' after ...

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 virus that is mostly found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. It is spread by West African multimammate rats, which are currently the only type known to carry Lassa virus, health ...

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’ ...

Why there’s no need to panic over Lassa fever. It’s Ebola-like, but it’s not Ebola. May 26, 2015 ...

The Yale Arbovirus lab was no stranger to Lassa fever; in fact, in many ways it was the disease's American home. What is now known as the Lassa virus came to America in February 1969.

"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 ...