rabbit fever meaning

• Noun: rabbit fever
  1. A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
     - tularemia [N. Amer], tularaemia [Brit, Cdn], deer fly fever, yatobyo

  Derived forms: rabbit fevers

  Type of: zoonosis, zoonotic disease

  Encyclopedia: Rabbit fever

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  [Medicine]
  n : TULAREMIA
  

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• rabbit on:    Verb: rabbit onTal ...
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Examples

1. He illustrated the movie poster for the feature-length documentary " Rabbit Fever " ( 2009 ).
2. In 2006, Lee had a small part as a pop star in the film " Rabbit Fever ".
3. Rabbit fever, or tularemia, is caused by a bacterium that usually is transmitted by ticks and by handling animal carcasses.
4. Although a cluster of rabbit fever pneumonia cases occurred on Martha's Vineyard in 1978, tularemia cases have rarely been reported since then.
5. In the summer of 2000, an outbreak of tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, resulted in one death and piqued the interest of the Francisella tularensis ".