1) Biological weapon 2) Rodent-carried disease
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(from the article `rodent`) ...burrowing; and objects are damaged by gnawing. Certain species are reservoirs for diseases such as plague, murine typhus, scrub typhus, tularemia, ...
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A severe form of epidemic fever first identified in Lassa, Nigeria. It is caused by the Lassa virus, a member of Arenaviridae. The illness is characterised by high fever, sore throat, muscle aches, skin rash (with haemorrhages), headache, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. A rat serves as a reservoir for the illness, but person to person trans...
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(las´ah) an acute, often fatal type of hemorrhagic fever, occurring in West Africa and caused by a virulent arenavirus. Symptoms include progressive prostration, sore throat, ulcerations of the mouth or throat, rash, and general aches and pains, which may be followed by serous effusions, generalized hemorrhages, and fat...
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See Lassa virus.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a severe form of epidemic hemorrhagic fever, which is usually fatal. It was first recognized in Lassa (Nigeria); caused by the Lassa virus, a member of the Arenaviridae family; is characterized by high fever, sore throat, severe muscle aches, skin rash with hemorrhages, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Th...
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Lassa fever: An acute viral infection found in the tropics, especially in West Africa. Epidemics of Lassa fever have occurred in countries such as Sierra Leone, Congo (formerly Zaire), Liberia and Nigeria. The disease was discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died of it in the village of Lassa, Nigeria. The virus is an arenavirus, a single-...
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Lassa fever is an incurable fever caused by a virus carried by a species of rat found in west Africa. It is characterised by high fever and muscular pains
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[
n] - a serious contagious viral disease of central western Africa
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noun 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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Acute disease caused by an arenavirus, first detected in 1969, and spread by a species of rat found only in west Africa. It is classified as a haemorrhagic fever and characterized by high fever, headache, muscle pain, and internal bleeding. There is no known cure, the survival rate being less than 50%. In west Africa 300,000 to 500,000 cases oc...
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