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Swamp fever

noun

An infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever. Synonym: leptospirosis.

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"Swamp fever" Quotes from Famous Books

... of ginger posset which Mrs. Burton has sent over for Mr. Selincourt. She says you must give him a teacupful as soon as he wakes, and you ought to make him swallow it even if he objects, as there is quinine in it, which may ward off swamp fever," the man said, with the air of one ...

— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

... to sleep in his ship at night so jealous his captains were of him. He had a touch of the swamp fever which takes the heart out of a man, and finally he was obliged to show them the three-plied rope of pearls to hold them. To just a few of his captains he showed it, but the Indian boy he had taken to be his servant ...

— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al

Words linked to "Swamp fever" : Weil's disease, zoonosis, zoonotic disease, leptospirosis, canicola fever