Lassa fever

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Lassa fever

noun Lhasa fever

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.
Similar: Lassa hemorrhagic fever, Lassa haemorrhagic fever

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noun Lassa fever

日本語	ラッサ熱 rassa-netsu
中文	拉薩熱 /拉萨热 lāsàrè
Português	febre de Lassa

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@misc{lassa_fever_2026,
  title = {Lassa fever},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lassa%20fever},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}