Lassa fever is primarily spread by rats found in West Africa, the CDC says. An Iowa resident has died after contracting a ...
The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.
New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35 percent) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35 percent. Currently ...
A suspected case of Lassa fever has claimed the life of an Iowa resident who recently returned from West Africa, prompting an ...
The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...
An Iowa resident who returned to the United States from travel to West Africa died Monday of a rare hemorrhagic fever, health ...
Health officials are investigating the case of an Iowa resident who died of Lassa fever after traveling recently to W ...
An Iowa resident is dead after contracting the rare Ebola-like disease Lassa fever. Here's everything you need to know about ...
About 90 percent of Iowa’s population receives water that has been treated with fluoride. But what is it? What does it do? And why do some cities not treat their water?
Iowa public health officials said in a news release. The CDC is doing final lab testing after the person had a presumptive positive result on Monday. The person died Monday afternoon while ...
The agencies are trying to determine who may have had close contact with the patient, who had been treated in isolation at ...