The Kano State Government has announced an emergency rat eradication exercise in Garun Malam Local Government Area following ...

The candidate vaccine is based on a modified, weakened rabies virus vaccine. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Lassa fever, which is caused by a virus carried by West African rodents.

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 ...

Lassa virus is endemic in West Africa, and it has a reservoir in rodents. There are an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 human infections yearly, which cause about 5,000 deaths.

Lassa virus (a member of the Arenavirus family) causes Lassa fever, a severe hemorrhagic disease that can be fatal and causes permanent hearing loss in up to one-third of those who contract it.

According to the World Health Organisation: "About 80% of people who become infected with Lassa virus have no or mild symptoms. One in 5 infections result in severe disease, where the virus ...

The is an illness which is caused by the Lassa Virus. The virus, which is rat-borne, is usually contracted by human contact with food or household items which have been contaminated by the urine ...