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 ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, says the country has continued to record a steady decline in the ...

Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness spread primarily through infected rodents, is rapidly spreading across Nigeria, prompting urgent public health warnings and straining the nation’s ...

A Phase Ia clinical trial led by a research team at the Institut Pasteur is set to begin for the platform's first vaccine candidate, which targets Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic fever responsible for ...

Death toll from Lassa fever has risen to 127, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). This information was disclosed in a situation report released on Tuesday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed a total of 832 cases and 135 deaths from Lassa ...

Mr Idris noted that the number of deaths and the case fatality rate has also dropped, with only three deaths recorded during ...

Lassa fever has claimed five lives in one week from 15 confirmed cases reported across six states and 11 Local Government Areas (LGAs), according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

A consultant clinical microbiologist at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Dr. Usman Yahaya Umar, has urged Kano residents to take preventive measures after confirmed cases of Lassa fever in ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 674 Lassa fever cases with 127 deaths across 18 states, across 93 local government areas between January and April 6 ...

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr. Jide Idris, says that Nigeria has ...

Eighteen Nigeria states have recorded at least one confirmed case of Lassa fever shave recorded at least one confirmed case, through it's suspected that the virus has spread to as many as 33 states.