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Haverhill fever
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Epidemic arthritic erythema, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis. uncountable
- 2 the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States wordnet
Etymology
From an outbreak that occurred in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in January 1926.
See also for "haverhill fever"
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