Definitions for lassa fever
ˈlɑ səlas·sa fever

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1. Lassa fevernoun

   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

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1. Lassa fevernoun

   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.

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1. lassa fever

   Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus. It is transmitted to humans through direct contact with urine or feces of infected Mastomys rats or from a person infected with the virus. The disease is endemic in parts of West Africa and can result in severe symptoms including bleeding and multi-organ failure in severe cases. However, mild or no symptoms may also occur. There is currently no approved vaccine for Lassa fever, but it can be treated using antiviral drugs if administered early in the course of the illness.

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1. Lassa fever

   Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus and first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria. The Lassa Fever is a member of the arenaviridiae virus family. Similar to Ebola, clinical cases of the disease had been known for over a decade but had not been connected with a viral pathogen. The infection is endemic in West African countries, and causes 300,000–500,000 cases annually, with approximately 5,000 deaths. Outbreaks of the disease have been observed in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Central African Republic, but it is believed that human infections also exist in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Senegal. The primary animal host of the Lassa virus is the Natal Multimammate Mouse, an animal indigenous to most of Sub-Saharan Africa. The virus is probably transmitted by contact with the feces or urine of animals accessing grain stores in residences. Given its high rate of incidence, lassa fever has become a major problem in the African region. Nadezhda E. Yun and David H. Walker have done research on the origin on the Lassa fever. Dr. Ross Donaldson accounts his experience with Lassa fever in his book, The Lassa Ward.

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1. Lassa Fever

   An acute febrile human disease caused by the LASSA VIRUS.

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1. • Hemorrhagic Fever

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lassa fever in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lassa fever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of lassa fever in a Sentence

1. The CDC:

   Lassa fever is a viral disease common in West Africa but rarely seen in the United States, there has never been person-to-person transmission of Lassa fever documented in the United States.

2. David Heymann:

   Lassa fever occurs because people live in the forest and destroy it for farming.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lassa fever
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lassa_Fever
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lassa fever