English Explanatory Dictionary

Haverhill fever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Epidemic arthritic erythema, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis.

Word forms

Haverhill fever

Etymology

From an outbreak that occurred in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in January 1926.

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