The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already demonstrated the ability of the cat-sized rodents, which it calls “HeroRATs,” to sniff out landmines, tuberculosis, and even survivors among ...

Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...

Besides various, humane ways of trapping rodents, there is a more simple, hassle-free solution to your pest control woes: plants! Surprisingly, there are specific plants, known for their fragrant ...

Recently, an eastern Iowa resident in the United States who had travelled to West Africa died after contracting Lassa fever, ...

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Rodents explore their environment by stroking surfaces with their whiskers, visually scanning, and incessantly sniffing. Mercado discovered that studies on vocalizations that also monitored ...

A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa died Monday from a rare viral hemorrhagic ...

How did kush become so popular, and what can Liberia do to stop its youth from falling into addiction? Josey Mahachi talks to Psychiatrist Dr. Emmanuel P. Flomo at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia ...

This new virus—named Gainesville rodent jeilongvirus 1—marks the first time that a virus of this type has been discovered in the U.S., according to a new paper in the journal Pathogens.

The last death from the virus was in 2015 when a 55-year-old New Jersey man became infected after he worked in Liberia and came in contact with rodents and their waste. After Monday's death ...