rabbit fever
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rabbit fever
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Just this month, tularemia, also known as rabbit fever and caused by a bacterium in ticks and deer flies, was detected in people living on Long Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
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