Lassa fever: Why there’s a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa’s most populous nation to be declared a …

A model to predict diseases that transfer from animals to humans

The study tested the model with Lassa fever, a disease endemic to western Africa and is caused by the Lassa virus which passes on to people …

Lassa fever kills 41 in Nigeria

The first case of the viral disease in the country was reported in November 2015

Amid Ebola crisis, West Africa fears Lassa fever outbreak

Symptoms of Lassa mimic the initial symptoms of Ebola virus disease