Lassa fever

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Lassa fever (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) 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.
    • 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 243:
      When he showed up in A & E with a cough and chest pain later that evening, the doctor on call suspected Lassa fever and asked that he be transferred to Ifẹ̀ for isolation.

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

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