English Explanatory Dictionary

Bulam fever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. yellow fever

Word forms

Bulam fever

Etymology

The disease was believed to have spread through contagion from a ship, the Hankey, that came from Bolama (then Bulam) in what is now Guinea-Bissau.

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