{"id":8002,"date":"2024-10-29T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2024-10-29T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:08:03","slug":"u-s-death-from-lassa-fever-an-ebola-like-virus-is-reported-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/29\/u-s-death-from-lassa-fever-an-ebola-like-virus-is-reported-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. death from Lassa fever, an Ebola-like virus, is reported in Iowa\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/10\/28\/lassa-fever-us-case-iowa-death\/\">STAT<\/a> A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a virus that can cause Ebola-like illness in some patients. State health officials reported the case on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to assure Iowans that the risk of transmission is incredibly low in our state. We continue to investigate and monitor this situation and are implementing the necessary public health protocols,\u201d Robert Kruse, state medical director of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hhs.iowa.gov\/news-release\/2024-10-28\/state-and-hospital-officials-follow-federal-guidance-after-lassa-fever-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted to the department\u2019s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/10\/28\/lassa-fever-us-case-iowa-death\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"wTn  Od d  WWGMgbN xmj fUT\">wTn  Od d  WWGMgbN xmj fUT<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a virus that can cause Ebola-like illness in some patients. State health officials reported the case on Monday. \u201cI want to assure Iowans that the risk of transmission is incredibly low in our state. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-lassa-fever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}