AN OUTBREAK of horrifying ‘rat fever’ has infected 3,700 people and killed 122 since the start of the year. Lassa fever – spread by infected rodents – is tearing through ...

The Integrated Research Facility is one of the few labs in North America where scientists can safely study BSL-4 pathogens ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, says the country has continued to record a steady decline in the ...

HHS implemented a pause on research of deadly infectious diseases at one of the nation's most highly secure research labs, ...

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all ...

Most of the people who have died presented late. This is why we keep saying, once you start noticing the signs, get yourself ...

Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness spread primarily through infected rodents, is rapidly spreading across Nigeria, prompting urgent public health warnings and straining the nation’s ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed a total of 832 cases and 135 deaths from Lassa ...

Mr Idris noted that the number of deaths and the case fatality rate has also dropped, with only three deaths recorded during ...

A consultant clinical microbiologist at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Dr. Usman Yahaya Umar, has urged Kano residents to take preventive measures after confirmed cases of Lassa fever in ...

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr. Jide Idris, says that Nigeria has ...

Eighteen Nigeria states have recorded at least one confirmed case of Lassa fever shave recorded at least one confirmed case, through it's suspected that the virus has spread to as many as 33 states.