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Rift Valley Fever
see synonyms of rift valley feverNoun
1. rift valley fever
an infection common in Africa caused by a bunyavirus; transmitted by mosquitoes or by handling infected animals
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Rift Valley Fever
see synonyms of rift valley fevern.
An acute infectious disease of humans and domestic animals, especially cattle and sheep, caused by a mosquito-borne virus and characterized in humans by fever and sometimes ocular disease, hemorrhagic symptoms, or encephalitis, and in animals by fever, abortion, and death of newborns. Rift Valley fever was first described in Kenya and occurs primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.
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