rabbit fever

American  

noun

Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

1. tularemia.

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rabbit fever British  

noun

1. pathol another name for tularaemia

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Etymology

Origin of rabbit fever

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Less than 48 hours later, the results came back: Mr. Springer had tularemia, or rabbit fever, a rare bacterial infection transmitted by animals and ticks that sickens fewer than 200 Americans a year.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2020

Tularemia, known as rabbit fever, can cause life-threatening infections, and is a potential biowarfare agent.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019

He began working in microfluidics 20 years ago when the Pentagon was seeking a “lab on a chip” that soldiers could carry to detect bio-warfare threats like anthrax and rabbit fever.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2011

Together they raise a child named Peter who as a boy suffers tularemia — rabbit fever — and becomes synesthetic after drinking patent medicine sold by a mysterious figure.

From Washington Post

I'm wishing for a fire -eating raw rabbit can give you rabbit fever, a lesson I learned the hard way -when I think of the dead tribute.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins