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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flavivirus that is transmitted by the bite of a culex mosquito and that can cause mild febrile illness as well as severe, sometimes fatal encephalitis and meningitis.
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- noun A particular
flavivirus ,dangerous tohumans .
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- noun the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the West Nile, District of Uganda, where the virus was first isolated in 1937.]
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