| 释义 |
o'nyong-nyong Med.|əʊˈnjɒŋnjɒŋ|
Also onyongnyong.
[See quot. 1960.]
A mosquito-borne virus disease in East Africa, similar to dengue, which is caused by an arborvirus and carried by anopheles.
1960A. J. Haddow et al. in Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene LIV. 517 (heading) O'nyong-nyong fever: an epidemic virus disease. Ibid., The epithet ‘o'nyong-nyong’ originated among the Acholi, one of the first tribes to be affected, and, being the first recorded, has been selected as the definitive name of the disease. Ibid. 518 The Map..shows the approximate dates at which o'nyong-nyong appeared in the various affected areas in Uganda. 1966Guardian 8 Sept. 2/8 It has recently been established in Africa that a fever virus called onyongnyong is transmitted by the anopheline mosquito. 1974A. W. Woodruff Med. in Tropics xxii. 322/1 O'nyong-nyong has caused one very major epidemic which started in Uganda in 1959 and spread to Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi involving an estimated 2 million people. |