Malta fever
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Malta fever
First recorded in 1865–70
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In the Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever.
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During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats.
From Time Magazine Archive
A member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he discovered the microorganism in the tsetse fly which causes African sleeping sickness; and the cause of Malta fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malta fever is becoming an important disease in portions of southern Europe.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings
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