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

The cause of death for both Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were revealed on March 7. Betsy died from Hantavirus and ...

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.

A clinical trial led by researchers at the Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and the University of Milan found a probiotic mixture that significantly shortened fever duration in children with ...

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

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, confirmed 563 Lassa fever cases out of the 2,960 ...

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.

What is hantavirus, and how do you get it and treat it? What to know about the disease that killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa.

"This is a significant set of deaths and disease caused by multiple agents ... a similar viral hemorrhagic fever, the WHO said. The WHO's Africa office warned that the remote location of these ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease in January ...

In some West African countries, where the disease is endemic, people usually become infected through exposure to food, or household items contaminated with urine or faeces of rats. Lassa fever is ...