O’Nyong’Nyong Fever

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发表日期：

2024年

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Krishna Gopal Narayan,
Dharmendra Kumar Sinha,
Dhirendra Kumar Singh

摘要

The Acholi people of northwestern Uganda called ‘O’ ‘nyong-nyong’ to describe very painful weakening joints experienced in O’nyong’nyong fever. It is a mosquito-borne disease characterized by fever, headache, generalized joint pain, arthralgia and also maculopapular skin rash and lymph adenopathy endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.