ABUJA — Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 204 lives in 2026, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, warned that delayed hospital visits, poor health-seeking behaviour ...

Patients were taken to the canteen of a hospital in Bangkok. — © AFP Montira RUNGJIRAJITTRANON Patients were taken to the canteen of a hospital in Bangkok ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1969, an American missionary nurse named Laura Wine came down with a troubling fever while working in the Nigerian town of ...

A promising Lassa fever vaccine shows potential to prevent severe disease and death in animals. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, in collaboration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iowa resident has died after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever, health officials said. The patient was diagnosed ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported 204 deaths from Lassa fever across the country between January and May 2026, with the case fatality rate rising above figures ...

Nigeria’s worsening Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 204 lives this year, fuelling fear in affected communities and increasing pressure on overstretched healthcare workers, the Nigeria Centre for ...

Scientists at Emory University and the University of St. Andrews have solved the structure of a key protein from Lassa virus, which is endemic to West Africa and can cause a deadly hemorrhagic fever.

Lassa fever is a viral illness that is far too common in West Africa. Although it can have a mortality rate of 15% in severe cases, up to 90% in pregnant women, and causes deafness in a quarter of ...

Eleven-year-old Delma Rivera was excited. It was just before Thanksgiving 1969, and her favorite uncle — her tío — was coming from his home in Connecticut to visit the Rivera family at their York ...