Rift Valley fever

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Rift Valley fever

[rift]
noun Pathology.
a highly infectious viral disease of humans and animals, transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects, occurring in Africa and characterized in humans by headache, fever, eye discomfort, and muscle aches, progressing in some cases to encephalitis, blindness, or internal bleeding.

Origin:
1930–35
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rift valley fever

noun
an infection common in Africa caused by a bunyavirus; transmitted by mosquitoes or by handling infected animals 
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