Govt needs to strengthen the health sector to confront the malady …it should also step up effort like it’s already doing in terms of awareness, says Enabulele Nigeria is currently experiencing a Lassa ...

Preventing epidemics requires early detection followed by rapid, effective steps. This means coordinating local communities ...

So it precedes current methods for detecting the disease.” An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 cases of Lassa occur every year, and over 20 individual cases have reached the United States, Canada, the ...

These pathogens include Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, eastern equine encephalitis, Ebola, Hendra, Japanese encephalitis, Lassa, Marburg, Nipah, Rift Valley fever, and West Nile viruses.

Marburg virus Tanzania is facing an outbreak of Marburg virus, in the northwest Kagera District. Since January, 10 cases have been reported including two confirmed and eight probable cases.

The last Lassa fever case brought to the U.S. was in 2016, according to federal records. Then, a 33-year-old Georgia nurse contracted the illness after she treated an infected patient in Togo.

Of the diseases that cause viral hemorrhagic fevers — things like Ebola and Marburg fever — Lassa is probably the one that is most commonly imported to non-endemic countries, Garry said.

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services confirmed a “middle-aged eastern Iowa resident” died of Lassa fever. The individual had traveled to West Africa, where they likely contracted ...

The NCDC particularly raised concern about cholera, Lassa fever, and emerging global threats such as the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda. During a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, the ...

While the peak of the Lassa fever outbreak was declared over in April, sporadic cases continue to be reported, with 37 new cases and four deaths recorded in the past month alone, he said ...

Marburg virus has demonstrated the ability to resurface in the past few years in new and unexpected places. In 2023 alone, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania experienced their first-ever outbreaks of ...