Malta fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. brucellosis.

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Malta fever British  

noun

1. another name for brucellosis

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Etymology

Origin of Malta fever

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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

In the Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

A diminution in their number is known as leucopenia, and is found in starvation, in some infective diseases, as for example in typhoid fever, in malaria and Malta fever, and in pernicious anaemia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various