Health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Iowa Department of Health, are ...

A suspected case of Lassa fever has claimed the life of an Iowa resident who recently returned from West Africa, prompting an ...

An eastern Iowa resident died Monday from a viral disease similar to Ebola that was likely contracted during a recent trip to ...

The patient had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center - with testing by the ...

The agencies are trying to determine who may have had close contact with the patient, who had been treated in isolation at ...

The individual had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed the person contracted the virus.

The middle-aged Iowa resident had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed they contracted the ...

About 90 percent of Iowa’s population receives water that has been treated with fluoride. But what is it? What does it do? And why do some cities not treat their water?

A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa died Monday from a rare viral hemorrhagic ...

Lassa fever is primarily spread by rats found in West Africa, the CDC says. An Iowa resident has died after contracting a ...

Late yesterday afternoon, Iowa's health department announced a fatal imported Lassa fever case. Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a statement on the case, emphasizing ...

An Iowa resident who returned to the United States from travel to West Africa died Monday of a rare hemorrhagic fever, health ...