Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley fever
nounDefinition of RIFT VALLEY FEVER
: an acute usually epizootic mosquito-borne disease of domestic animals chiefly of eastern and southern Africa that is caused by a bunyavirus (species Rift valley fever virus of the genus Phlebovirus), is marked especially by fever, abortion, and death of newborns, and is sometimes transmitted to humans usually in a less severe form
Origin of RIFT VALLEY FEVER
(Great) Rift Valley, Africa
First Known Use: circa 1931
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