Lassa fever

alternative Lhasa fever

1. uncountablemedicineAn 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.

   2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 243

   Synonyms: Lassa hemorrhagic fever, Lassa haemorrhagic fever