The health authorities should do more to contain the scourgeIt is bad enough that the disease was named after a village in Nigeria, but it is even more depressing that since 1969, Lassa fever has ...

I recently read Timothy Egan’s book, “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them” after it popped up on a library search. Egan’s book is a ...

Lassa fever, an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, is primarily transmitted to humans through contact with food or household items contaminated by the urine or feces of infected rodents. It can also ...

The resurgence of Lassa fever in Nigeria has sparked concern, with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ...