Kasokero virus

Kasokero virus

a virus of the family Bunyaviridae causing a febrile disease in humans characterized by headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, severe myalgia, and arthralgia.

[after the Kasokero Cave in Uganda where the virus was first isolated from bats]

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Ka·so·ke·ro vi·rus

(kah'sō-ker'ō vī'rŭs)

A virus of the family Bunyaviridae causing a febrile disease in humans characterized by headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, severe myalgia, and arthralgia.

[after the Kasokero Cave in Uganda where the virus was first isolated from bats]

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