The authorities should do more to contain the scourgeConfirmation by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) that no fewer than 118 people lost their lives to Lassa fever during ...

An Institut Pasteur team has developed an original vaccine platform known as MOPEVAC, that will strengthen the organization’s ...

The intersegment NC correlation constrains segment reassortment. This study presents a novel strategy for predicting IAV reassortment based on viral genetic compatibility. In this study, we analyzed ...

Scanning electron micrograph of Lassa virus budding off a cell. Lassa virus (LASV) is an arenavirus that causes Lassa hemorrhagic fever, a type of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) in humans and other ...

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 ...

Dr Yetunde Abioye is the incident manager at the National Lassa Fever Emergency Operations Centre at the NCDC’s department of surveillance and epidemiology. She told Africa Check that while cases were ...

Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic disease caused by the Lassa virus, primarily spread through contact with food or household items contaminated by infected rodents’ urine, feces, or saliva.

Lassa virus is spread by rodents, known as multimammate rats, that are native to many countries in West Africa. The virus can also be spread from person to person. Currently, there are no specific ...

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.

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.

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of two mature extracellular Lassa virus particles (purple) near the periphery of a VERO E6 cell (green). A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored ...