Lassa fever overview: symptoms, transmission, treatment, vaccine challenges, public health responses, and travel precautions ...
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The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.
Lassa fever has reached the US for the first time in a decade, in a case that has surprised health officials .
An Iowa resident who returned to the United States from travel to West Africa died Monday of a rare hemorrhagic fever, health ...
Lassa fever is a viral illness spread by the “multimammate rat” found in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the CDC. Named after the Nigerian town where the first cases of the disease were detected in ...
Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...
Health officials are investigating the death Monday of an Iowa resident as a suspected case of Lassa fever , a frightening ...
The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...
A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a ...