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lassa fever
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lassa fever has 1 sense
- lassa fever(n = noun.state) Array - 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; Array is a kind of haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, vhf, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lassa fever, n. an acute and often fatal febrile viral disease of tropical Africa.
Etymology
Lassa in Nigeria, where first reported
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