West Nile virus

West Nile virus
noun Etymology: from West Nile province of Uganda, where the virus was isolated in 1937 Date: 1940 a flavivirus (species West Nile virus of the genus Flavivirus) that causes an illness marked by fever, headache, muscle ache, skin rash, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis and that is spread chiefly by mosquitoes; also West Nile fever

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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