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Lassa fever Definition


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Lassa fever
noun
    1. A viral disease of tropical Africa whose symptoms include high temperature, diarrhoea, headache, vomiting and chest pains and which, in its severest form, can prove fatal.
Etymology: 1970s: named after Lassa, a village in NE Nigeria where it was first identified.



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