Lassa fever en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
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.
2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 243:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lhasa fever | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Synonyms
Lassa haemorrhagic fever · Lassa hemorrhagic fever
Translations (4)
tr Lassa ateşi (Lassa fever) · ja ラッサ熱 (Lassa fever) · pt febre de Lassa (Lassa fever) · cmn 拉薩熱 /拉萨热 (Lassa fever)