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Haverhill_fever

Haverhill fever

English

Noun

Haverhill fever ‎(uncountable)

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

Etymology

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

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