The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...

The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

The health authorities should do more to contain the scourgeIt is bad enough that the disease was named after a village in Nigeria, but it is even more depressing that since 1969, Lassa fever has ...

On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...

Lassa fever has claimed 70 lives this year, with Taraba, Ondo and Edo states having the highest number of casualties, Daily Trust reports.According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

Ondo State government has confirmed that 12 persons have been killed by lassa fever and 112 established out of 353 reported ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

The deaths are clearly avoidable with more efficient and prudent management of fiscal allocations to the health sector, as well as greater effectiveness in running the sector, including personnel ...

Henipaviruses can infect many animals, including bats, horses, monkeys, dogs, cats and even rodents. This means they are more ...

When a mosquito bites an infected nonhuman host, such as a sick bird, the virus is transported with freshly ingested blood into the mosquito’s midgut – the equivalent to the human stomach and ...