Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lassa_fever

1 sense of lassa fever

Sense 1
Lassa fever -- (an acute contagious viral disease of central western Africa; characterized by fever and inflammation and muscular pains and difficulty swallowing; can be used as a bioweapon)
       => hemorrhagic fever, haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, viral haemorrhagic fever, VHF -- (a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage)