Haverhill fever
Meaning
Noun
- epidemic arthritic erythema, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis (species)
Origin
- From an outbreak that occurred in Haverhill, Massachusetts in January, 1926.
Modern English dictionary
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