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Lassa - translation to french
Lassa
Lassa, town in Nigeria
las
las, woe
las
weary, jaded, tired
Definition
Lassa fever
['las?]
¦ noun an acute and often fatal viral disease occurring chiefly in West Africa.
Origin
1970s: named after the village of Lassa, in NW Nigeria, where it was first reported.
Examples of use of Lassa
1. Pour l‘heure, sept pathologies sont dans leur ligne de mire: la fi';vre hémorragique de Crimean–Congo, celles de Lassa et de Marburg, le virus Ebola, le SRAS, la variole et, bien s$';r, la grippe aviaire.
2. Comme il existe peu de laboratoires similaires, nous serons peut–ętre solicités par d‘autres pays ou des organisations comme l‘OMS.» Pour le médecin, doter la Suisse d‘un tel centre était, quoi qu‘il en soit, une nécessité, suite ŕ l‘hospitalisation aux HUG, en 2000, de patients infectés par la fi';vre de Lassa.