Lassa fever

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Noun

Lassa fever (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An acute, and often fatal, viral infection endemic to West Africa. Symptoms include fever, sore throat, muscle aches, a skin rash, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, ulcers, heart and kidney failure.

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  • (CDN, US) Lassa hemorrhagic fever)
  • (UK) Lassa haemorrhagic fever

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