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Lassa fever

(Encyclopedia)Lassa fever lăsˈə [key], an acute viral disease occurring mostly in W Africa, characterized by high fever, muscle aches, mouth ulcers, and bleeding in the skin in more severe cases. The disease was...

swamp fever

(Encyclopedia)swamp fever: see leptospirosis.

swine fever

(Encyclopedia)swine fever: see African swine fever; classical swine fever. ...

valley fever

(Encyclopedia)valley fever: see coccidioidomycosis. ...

snail fever

(Encyclopedia)snail fever: see schistosomiasis. ...

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