Ondo, Bauchi and Edo.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has recorded 28 new confirmed cases and three deaths from Lassa fever.The centre stated this on Wednesday in its ...

An NIH-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants.

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

Thomas Jefferson University has initiated a phase 1 clinical trial for a Lassa virus (LASV) vaccine developed at Jefferson in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), at the ...

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.

The saying "feed a cold, starve a fever" implies that eating helps when you're sick with the sniffles and fasting is beneficial for a fever. The centuries-old adage comes from the false idea that the ...

Lassa fever has claimed 95 lives out of 506 people who were confirmed to have contracted the disease as of February 23, 2025, ...

In its latest Lassa Fever Situation Report for Week 8, 2025, the NCDC disclosed that 95 deaths had been recorded, maintaining a high… The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC ...

No fewer than 461 persons are currently being tracked by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control over the possibility of being infected with Lassa fever, data obtained by the disease control agency ...

The Benue State Government has confirmed three persons dead with a 60% fatality rate as it declared the outbreak of Lassa fever. It confirmed five cases out of the forty suspected cases reported ...

The Navy’s current measles rate is ten times last year’s. Scarlet fever also increased, especially on the Pacific coast. The Public Health Service could give no figures on chicken pox since ...