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Kyasanur forest disease
Kyasanur forest disease [ kee ássə noor fórrist di zeez ]


noun 
Definition:
 
arbovirus fever: an arbovirus infection causing fever, sore throat, headache, aches and pains, diarrhoea, and sometimes brain inflammation. The disease is caused by a virus of the same group as that causing Japanese B encephalitis.
[Late 20th century. After a forest in Mysore, S India]
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