Lhasa fever

Noun

Lassa fever (uncountable)

1. 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.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 243

   Synonyms:

   Lassa hemorrhagic fever, Lassa haemorrhagic fever