The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.
The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...
Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...
A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a ...
An Iowa resident who returned to the United States from travel to West Africa died Monday of a rare hemorrhagic fever, health ...
Lassa fever overview: symptoms, transmission, treatment, vaccine challenges, public health responses, and travel precautions ...
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 ...