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Lassa Fever

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Noun

1. lassa fever

an acute contagious viral disease of central western Africa; characterized by fever and inflammation and muscular pains and difficulty swallowing; can be used as a bioweapon

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lassa Fever

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noun
a serious viral disease of Central West Africa, characterized by high fever and muscular pains

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Lassa Fever

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an acute viral disease endemic to W Africa, characterized by high fever and inflammation of various body parts

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lassa Fever

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n.
An acute form of hemorrhagic fever endemic to West Africa that is caused by an arenavirus transmitted by a species of rat and is characterized by fever, headache, gastrointestinal symptoms, and bleeding from the gums, and can result in deafness.

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