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  1. Any of several virus diseases of the tropics,
  2. in which high temperatures over several days
  3. end in haemorrhage from nose, throat, and
  4. intestines, with up to 90% mortality. The
  5. causative organism of W African Lassa fever
  6. lives in rats (which betray no symptoms), but
  7. in Marburg disease and Ebola fever, the host
  8. animal is unknown.
  9.