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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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Main Entry: Rift Val·ley fever
Pronunciation: 'rift-"val-E-
Function: noun
: a disease of East African sheep and sometimes cattle that is caused by abunyavirus (genus Phlebovirus), is characterized by fever and destructive hepatitis, and is occasionally transmitted to humans in a much-attenuated form
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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