New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

NIH-Sponsored Trial of Lassa Vaccine Opens - Viral Hemorrhagic Disease Can be Fatal & Causes Permanent Hearing Loss ...

NIH has launched a human trial for LASSARAB, a dual-purpose vaccine targeting Lassa fever and rabies. Early animal studies ...

Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus. What is it? What are the symptoms? Are there any cases of Georgia?

Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks.

The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

The NIH announced the beginning of a phase 1 first-in-human trial of a vaccine for Lassa fever, a potentially fatal viral hemorrhagic disease for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

In South America the andes virus, often carried by the long-tailed pygmy rice rat, is most common. Hantavirus, which causes ...

The other is called hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. That illness is mostly found in Europe and Asia. But the Seoul ...

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) and Bluetongue EHD and Bluetongue are viral diseases spread by biting midges (no-see-ums) ...

No new cases reported in 42 days following death of last confirmed case on Jan. 28, according to WHO - Anadolu Ajansı ...

HFRS: Is caused by hantaviruses found mostly in Europe and Asia. However, Seoul virus, a type of hantavirus that causes HFRS, is found worldwide, including in the United States. The severity of ...