Symptoms can include pain, difficulty breathing, severe vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, confusion and bleeding.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-led research demonstrates that an oral antiviral drug, 4′-fluorouridine (4′-FlU), effectively inhibits lethal arenavirus infections in animal models.

A new study led by researchers at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill shows an urgent need for improved ...

Lassa virus is an arenavirus that is endemic to West Africa and is spread by Mastomys rats. In severe cases, the virus can cause hemorrhagic fever. There is no licensed antiviral agent for Lassa virus ...

African health authorities on Thursday confirmed a possible outbreak of an unidentified viral hemorrhagic fever in southern Ethiopia that is under investigation after eight suspected cases were ...

A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching Lassa fever, state officials said Monday. The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fever category as ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers developed a deep learning model, "LucaProt," a transformer-based AI model to detect highly divergent ribonucleic acid (RNA)-dependent RNA ...

The current risk of Lassa virus transmission in the US is "incredibly low," Iowa's medical director says. A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching Lassa ...