Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic fever ... so the risk of the disease spreading to fellow passengers is "extremely low," the CDC said.

The virus is initially transmitted to people ... and after Cameroon detected two suspected cases of the Ebola-like disease.

An Iowa resident has died after contracting a frightening viral disease, similar to Ebola, that leaves victims ... before symptoms occur and the virus is not spread by casual contact.

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

Lassa fever is much less likely to be fatal than other viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola or Marburg virus; an outbreak ... are hospitalized with severe disease, the fatality rate is estimated ...

"In the 2014–2016 West African Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, the CDC reported failures to diagnose and treat malaria in travelers returning to the U.S. who were thought to potentially have Ebola ...

Texans are warned about an Ebola-type disease that has been seen in the United States. This spread can be detrimental to not ...

Experts are worried amid the outbreak of an "eye-bleeding disease" that has spread to Europe. There have been nine deaths and 27 total cases from an incurable Ebola-like virus in Rwanda ...

In part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today 's editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, about the 10-year ...

Ebola is a rare and often deadly virus caused by infection by one of a group of four viruses known as ebolaviruses. Transmission of the disease is mostly through contact with an infected animal ...

Lassa fever is a virus carried by Mastomys rats, a species of rodents common across sub-Saharan Africa, and it causes no symptoms in the rodents. People catch the disease by touching surfaces ...