After seven years of critical support from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), local health authorities in Ebonyi state are now ...

Ebonyi State, located in southeastern Nigeria, faced one of its worst Lassa fever outbreaks, a hemorrhagic fever endemic to ...

Renowned virologist, Dr Simeon Agwale, has hinted that Lassa fever vaccine produced by a Nigerian has scaled through ...

An experimental vaccine being developed by Nigerian scientists has shown promising results in combating Lassa fever, an epidemic that remains prevalent in the country.Virologist Dr. Simeon Agwale, CEO ...

SPRINGFIELD Governor JB Pritzker announced today that the State of Illinois has teamed up with two leading Chicago Hospitals ...

Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, and Ebonyi states have accounted for 90% of all confirmed Lassa fever cases in Nigeria so ...

The NCDC via its official website on Friday, highlighted the continued public health challenge posed by these diseases ...

Lassa fever, which causes the death of scores of Nigerians annually, will soon be preventable by vaccination, an expert has ...

Lassa fever is a viral disease spread by rats. It mainly affects people in parts of West Africa, where there are about 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and about 5,000 deaths from it each year.

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 Nigeria, with health ...

ABUJA, March 31 (Reuters) - Lassa fever killed 118 people in Nigeria in the first three months of this year, the West African country's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said.

Renowned virologist, Dr Simeon Agwale, has hinted that Lassa fever vaccine produced by a Nigerian has scaled through preclinical trials involving mice and non-human primates.