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

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.

Lassa fever vaccine is one step closer to approval. Lassa virus infections, primarily spread by rodents, can cause a fatal ...

UK health officials are on high alert after a traveler from Nigeria tested positive for Lassa fever Learn about the virus its ...

An NIH-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants.

What is hantavirus, and how do you get it and treat it? What to know about the disease that killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa.

symptoms of the disease suggest it belongs to a group of diseases called viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF), meaning they cause excessive sickness and blood loss. Recognised examples of such diseases ...

The results, published in Science Translational Medicine on Feb. 19, could pave the way to the first treatment or vaccine for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV). Primary funding for the ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a few days after his wife Betsy Arakawa's death due to hantavirus ...

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

The viruses cause diseases like hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, according to the CDC's webpage on the virus. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a severe and ...