Lassa fever

English

Alternative forms

• Lhasa fever

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• fever

Translations

Lassa fever

Japanese: ラッサ熱 (rassa-netsu) Portuguese: febre de Lassa f Turkish: Lassa ateşi

References

• Lassa fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia