Lassafever

Lassafever
Las·sa fever (läʹsə, lăsʹə) 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.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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