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Lassa fever

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Las·sa fever  (läs, ls)
n.
An acute, often fatal viral disease endemic to West Africa and characterized by high fever, headache, ulcers of the mucous membranes, and disturbances of the gastrointestinal tract.
[After Lassa, a village of northeast Nigeria.]
Lassa fever
Noun
a serious viral disease of Central West Africa, characterized by high fever and muscular pains [after Lassa, the Nigerian village where it was first identified]
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Noun1.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
haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, VHF, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever - a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
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The same RNA was tested in a multiplex PCR for VHF that used primers for detection of Zaire Ebola, Sudan Ebola, MARV, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Hantaan, Seoul, yellow fever, and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses (3) for differential diagnosis of VHF.
Panmicrobial oligonucleotide array for diagnosis of infectious ... by Lipkin, W. Ian / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Examples of this connection are rife: the importation of West Nile encephalitis into the United States in 1999, a patient with Lassa fever transported from West Africa to Chicago, protection from the threat of biological warfare.
The ebola-virus: ... and the Challenges to Health Research in Africa by Bausch, Daniel / UN Chronicle
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