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Haverhill fever

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Noun
  1. 1
    Epidemic arthritic erythema, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis. uncountable
  2. 2
    the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States wordnet

Etymology

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

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