In 1969, an American missionary nurse named Laura Wine came down with a troubling fever while working in the Nigerian town of Lassa. The local doctors thought it was probably malaria, but Wine ...

In 1969, an American missionary nurse named Laura Wine came down with a troubling fever while working in the Nigerian town of Lassa. The local doctors thought it was probably malaria, but Wine ...

Lassa fever is a viral disease spread by rats. It mainly affects people in parts of West Africa, where there are about 300,000 cases of Lassa fever and about 5,000 deaths from it each year.

The overall mortality rate of Lassa fever is 1%, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. In severe cases, where the patient has been hospitalized, the fatality rate is ...

Below, DailyMail.com details everything you should know about Lassa fever: Lassa fever is a severe viral illness that leaves patients suffering from symptoms within a week to three weeks of infection.

Lassa fever infects an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people in West Africa each year and is responsible for 5,000 deaths. Join the conversation See the latest news and share your comments with CNN ...

In the past 55 years, there have been only eight travel-associated cases of Lassa fever reported in the U.S. In 2015, a New Jersey man died after being diagnosed with the virus. About 100,000 to ...

LONDON -- Cases of Lassa fever have been identified in the United Kingdom for the first time in over a decade. The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed in a press release Wednesday that ...

Lassa fever has a fatality rate of about 1% overall, but women who contract the disease late in pregnancy face an 80% chance of losing their child, or dying themselves. ‘New pandemic era’ ...

Lassa fever is not spread through casual human contact like hugging, shaking hands or sitting near someone or through the air, health officials said. Though very rare, the virus can be transmitted ...

Lassa fever symptoms for the remaining 20% are typically gradual, beginning with a fever, headache and general weakness. An infected person may begin to develop additional symptoms such as sore ...