Lassa fever is a viral disease spread by rats. It mainly affects people in parts of West Africa, where there are about 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and about 5,000 deaths from it each year.

Lassa fever remains a major health challenge in Nigeria, killing 100 people in early 2025. What’s going wrong?

has confirmed 76 new Lassa fever cases and 12 deaths across 10 states in Nigeria between January 20 and January 26, 2025. The latest Week 4 epidemiology report, released on Friday, revealed a ...

The clinical trial of a Lassa fever candidate vaccine has begun enrolling participants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Lassa virus (a member of the Arenavirus family ...

The NIH announced the beginning of a phase 1 first-in-human trial of a vaccine for Lassa fever, a potentially fatal viral hemorrhagic disease for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, ...

The Benue State Government has confirmed one death from Lassa fever and two isolated cases of the viral disease in the state. The victim died from complications related to Lassa fever before his ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday confirmed 506 Lassa fever cases out of the 2,492 suspected cases of the disease, and 95 deaths as of February 23, 2025.

A viral illness called Lassa fever that can cause Ebola-like symptoms has been confirmed in a person who recently travelled to England from Nigeria. Officials are now checking for any possible ...