beaver fever

British  

noun

1. an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife

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Example Sentences

It was unsurprising that he had one; he spent most of his New Hampshire boyhood doing God knows what in a swamp that he and his friends nicknamed “Beaver Fever.”

From Slate

I remember a weeks-long period of my western Massachusetts childhood when we had to boil all our drinking water because beavers had unleashed “beaver fever,” or giardiasis, into the town water supply.

From Slate

Of particular concern is giardiasis, a parasitic intestinal complaint commonly known as “beaver fever”.

From The Guardian

Notes from that case report indicate that water from the spring was trucked to a wedding reception at the Alpha Grange hall in Onalaska where an attendee wound up with a case of, as the report reads, “beaver fever.”

From Washington Times

In bareback, Steven Peebles of Redmond, Oregon, won the round with an 84.5 on Beaver Fever.

From Washington Times