The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it had been informed a person travelled to England from Nigeria while they were unwell with Lassa fever.

NIH has launched a human trial for LASSARAB, a dual-purpose vaccine targeting Lassa fever and rabies. Early animal studies ...

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

Lassa fever vaccine is one step closer to approval. Lassa virus infections, primarily spread by rodents, can cause a fatal ...

Lassa virus is usually contracted through exposure to food or household items that have been contaminated with the urine or faeces of infected rodents, and it is endemic to West Africa ...

NIH-Sponsored Trial of Lassa Vaccine Opens - Viral Hemorrhagic Disease Can be Fatal & Causes Permanent Hearing Loss ...

A type of rodent called the multimammate rat carries the Lassa fever virus in its pee and poop. There are lots of these rats in West, Central, and East Africa. They tend to live in homes and in ...

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.

The emergency services locked down several streets in Heemskerk for several hours on Thursday evening after a man showed up ...

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 ...

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.