TULAREMIA

tularemia, tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, yatobyo

(noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tularemia (uncountable)

(disease) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.

Synonyms

• deer fly fever

• Ohara's fever

• Pahvant Valley plague

• rabbit fever

Anagrams

• multiarea

Source: Wiktionary



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RACY

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