As health officials work to contain the continuing outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lessons from that crisis can be applied to more equitably battle Lassa fever, another deadly ...

Lassa fever is a priority pathogen in urgent need of research and development because it poses a significant public health ...

An Iowa resident has died after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever, health officials said. The patient was diagnosed Tuesday after returning to the United States from West Africa earlier this ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the country has recorded 17 new confirmed cases of Lassa in four states.

An unidentified New Jersey man died after returning home from West Africa, where he had contracted Lassa fever, a virus that has symptoms similar to those of Ebola. Federal health officials are ...

A patient has died after a third case of Lassa fever was confirmed in the UK, the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. What will the next global pandemic look like? Next major pandemic will hit ...

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is treating a physician assistant suspected of having caught Lassa fever in West Africa. The physician assistant, an American medical worker, was working in Togo ...

News from the Minnesota Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: A Minnesota traveler returning from Africa has been hospitalized with what the CDC confirms to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently, all eyes are on the worrisome Ebola virus disease outbreak going on in the northeast of the ...

A German undertaker has the distinction of becoming the first person to contract and become ill with Lassa fever outside of Africa, according to early reports. ProMed, a critically important site for ...

The first human has been vaccinated with Oxford University's new Lassa fever vaccine in a major first‑in‑human trial ...